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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!newshub.cts.com!news7.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:14:22 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 32 Message-ID: <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <323EE2A3.2C23B8A2@sullivan.bentley.com> <51kn0h$1i1@newsbr.eunet.fr> <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> <32413ece.157716099@news6.erols.com> <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: demo3-cng.s-ip.eunet.fr X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130461 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27640 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43867 >> NT is Un*x!! Way down deep in the heart of the os, surrounded >> by tons of extraneous MicroSquish slush....is for all intents and >> purposes, Mach (From CMU). Some might remember Mach as the >> OS that supported the NeXT as NeXTStep. Well, S. Jobs picked >> Mach for the same reason B. Gatez picked it, that being it was easily >> hidden under a layer of crud as to make it something else. >I think you should have another word with your contact. I think that NT >owes more to VMS kernel design than it does to MACH. It certainly is >nothing like MACH 2.5 which is what Nextstep is. Basically, you're both wrong and right: MS makes no secret that the chief architects of NT are the two architects from VMS and Mach. Think again, by the way: which OS, apart from DOS and NT, has parameters passed to programs with a "/" delimiter. -- Unix ? Definitely no: the hyphen "-" is the standard for arguments. -- VMS ? Right on the mark. However, just as Unix is not Mach and Mach is not Unix, having a Mach-inspired microkernel does not make NT a Unix derivative. There is a scant number of microkernels, and Mach and Chorus seem to be the two ones most used, for all sorts of OS projects. Think again, too: even Linux can't be called a Unix, although its command-line interface and API resemble Posix(*): the kernel is fully original. (*) Posix is a trademark of IEEE. forgive the mention, but as a member of one of the Posix groups, I feel obliged to mention it.