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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 06:31:54 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9307120131.59@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Lines: 30 In article <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> 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?? NT is not UNIX. NT is hardly POSIX. Bill Gates would fuck his own mother if it would raise the price of Microsoft stock. -- Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP