On Friday 06 September 2002 05:05 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 21:13, Scott Courtney wrote: > > Linux started as a reverse-engineered UNIX-like operating system, and > > although today it has many new features that aren't common to all *NIX > > systems, there is still enormous commonality. > > Linux was not reverse engineered from Unix.
I realize that, which is why I said UNIX-like rather than UNIX. Probably my choice of phrasing was not perfect; what I meant was that Linux was designed to behave (to "taste") like UNIX in terms of APIs and user interface. The point I was trying to make is that Linux is intentionally similar to something that already existed, for compatibility, rather than being designed from the ground up as a totally new concept. Scott -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Courtney, Senior Engineer Sine Nomine Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sinenomine.net/
