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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12250 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:18 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cc.curtin.edu.au!zcookbruc From: zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <1993Jul13.015546.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Lines: 40 Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 16:55:46 GMT In article <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>, qfh1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Quazi Haque) writes: > torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes: > >>The following is from Communications Week July 5, 1993 page 8. >>It is copied without permission. > >>Now I want to know WHAT does this mean?!? >> IS Gates trying to provoke USL into a lawsuit? > > No, he's trying to sell NT as 'all things to all people.' I agree. Reading the original post, I got the impression that BG thought the the kernal defined the O/S. NT does use a slightly fried MACH kernel, but I don't think this realy gets NT qualified as a UNIX > >> Is NT UNIX?? > > Well, it's /supposed/ to have a Posix-compliant personality, which would > make it source-compatible with Posix-compliant unix programs. I haven't > tried that out, so I'll let someone else comment on how (or if) that works. I saw a comment a while back by someone, asking why he got linker errors on his POSIX program. MS comment was that "a few POSIX functions where missing, but if you use the API equiv funcs. it should all work". Those minor functions where of course some of the file access functions. > > As far as it being Unix... I don't think so... considering the design > team's past involvement with DEC, I'd be more inclined to say NT is VMS :) . If it is VMS, I'd like to see a few VMS features ! The thing that gets me about NT is the way that M$ has tried soooo hard to make the system look like DOS/Windows. I was hoping for an O/S that broke out of the CP/M mindset, and took a step forward. Sigh - I suppose we have at least lost that 640K horror. ...BRU