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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!dircon!iank From: iank@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Organization: The Direct Connection: Internet/News/Mail (UK, 081-317 2222) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 18:31:47 GMT Message-ID: <iank.742156307@tdc.dircon.co.uk> References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Sender: news@dircon.co.uk (News administrator) Lines: 27 torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes: >The following is from Communications Week July 5, 1993 page 8. >It is copied without permission. > > UNIX IN NT'S CLOTHING In his latest positioning statement on > <<Stuff deleted>> > "NT is a form of Unix. It will not replace Unix, but I expect it > to be the most popular form of Unix." > > >Now I want to know WHAT does this mean?!? > IS Gates trying to provoke USL into a lawsuit? > Is NT UNIX?? > Think back to what people were saying about his system software products a dozen years ago. NT "is a form of" UNIX, in exactly the same way that MSDOS "is a form of" CMS (which is what at least several journalists claimed to have been told at that time.). Which is to say, not at all. -- Ian D. Kemmish Tel. +44 767 601 361 18 Durham Close uad1077@dircon.co.uk Biggleswade uknet!dircon!uad1077 Beds SG18 8HZ United Kingdom