Oops... I'm remembering the revolutionary notion that MS would adopt
POSIX which was a nod or interfacing standard to Unix, though not
derived from. I think the connection with VMS was entirely apocryphal?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:53:08PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote:
The only Unix derived OS I was never too impressed
with was WindowsNT... go figure.
Maybe because its not Unix derived. Its ancestor was VMS, a competitor
to unix put out by Digital, and popular in the 1980s.
This can be seen in the name W(indows)NT, which is "one step after VMS" (in
the alphabetic sense, a play on Stanley Kubrik's HAL, being one step
ahead of IBM.
Cheers
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