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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 09:38:54 GMT
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>> On 5 Apr 1997 02:26:10 GMT, token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow) said:
Q-DOS-> MS-DOS->W*nd*ws->NT.
>> Where do you see a lack of continuity?
MB> WindozeNT has more in common with VMS than with DOS.
Indeed. Recently I studied the system calls of WinNT and I saw the
similarities (I used to do VMS systems programming till 7 years ago).
WinNT does add some nice things, but all in all it is as messy and
unstructured as VMS was. It surely inherited the not so nice things
from VMS.
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