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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!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!kasajian From: kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <kasajianC9vyGD.16z@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 07:07:24 GMT 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 > Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system, company chairman and > CEO Bill Gates said NT is not a competitor of Unix, but in fact uses > the same kernel. "I think it [NT] will very quickly be the most > popular form of Unix out there, because we do not allow licensees to > change it around to try and get proprietary advantages on top of what > was on [[sic]] there," Gates said at last week's PC Expo in New York. > "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?? >******************************************************************************** >The world gets more weird day by day! Patrick Torre > Dun & Bradstreet Software > torre@dbsoftware.com >******************************************************************************** Hey may be refering to the Posix compatiblity... which is lame