On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 08:09:09PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote: > 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.
They did get some minimal posix compliance by means of an add-on environment, which enabled them to bid for tenders with a posix requirement, but as anyone knows from practice, its not so easy to use. These days, you do far better using the open source Cygwin platform (created by RedHat), to get a (sort of) posix compliance on Windows. Its pretty good, and makes using Windows bearable, but still has numerous "gotchas". There's my blog on the topic, for instance: http://www.hpcoders.com.au/blog/?p=29 Cheers > I think the connection with VMS was entirely > apocryphal? Not sure. I believe they did hire all the VMS engineers when Compaq bought Digital, but I assume they reimplemented the kernel, rather than just stealing the code :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
