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From: eugene@cs.umb.edu (Eugene O'Neil)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 97 17:21:02 GMT
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In article <E84y08.JqI@nonexistent.com>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:
>Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote:
>: 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?

Microsoft hired the programming team that developed VAX/VMS from DEC, and had 
them write an operating system for "New Technology" (NT). NT can support DOS 
processes in a special emulation mode, but underneath that is a real operating 
system with protected memory and preemptive processes.

I'm not all that fond of NT, but to give credit where it is due, NT is 
lightyears beyond DOS and Windows.

-Eugene