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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.ifm.liu.se!compisII.rydnet.lysator.liu.se!perle From: perle@compisII.rydnet.lysator.liu.se (Per Lewau) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 6 Apr 1997 01:27:44 GMT Organization: Linköping University, Sweden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5i6u6g$ilb$1@newsy.ifm.liu.se> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> <E84y 08.JqI@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: perle@lysator.liu.se NNTP-Posting-Host: compisii.rydnet.lysator.liu.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19823 comp.os.linux.misc:168135 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38507 In article <E84y08.JqI@nonexistent.com>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes: |> Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: |> : >If you want to look at the UNIX family tree,you trace back to Multics, |> : >of which Unics(as it was first spelled) was a single-processor version |> : >(so is SMP UNIX really Multix?);if you do the same for NT,you get |> : >Seattle Computer's Quick and Dirty Operating System for 8088s, |> : >designed to make CP/M apps portable for an 8-bit data line leading |> : >into 16-bit logic. |> : |> : NT was not even remotely based on Q-DOS. |> |> Q-DOS->MS-DOS->W*nd*ws->NT. |> Where do you see a lack of continuity? Rather: Q-DOS->MS-DOS->W*nd*ws->Win95 Multics -> Unix -> VMS -> Digital NT kernel -> M$ Win NT That's actually closer to the truth. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Per Lewau (perle@lysator.org) Student of Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden. "Don't quote me; that's what you heard, not what I said." - Lawrence K. Frank