<quote who="Nicholas Tomlin"> > Is anybody going Microsoft for copying the Unix multi user environment > with their NT, 2000 server and XP platforms?? I know Unix was first at it, > 20 plus years ago when I was at Uni...
The NT platforms were largely based on VMS design (not code), and are wildly dissimilar to *nix (though there is a POSIX compatibility layer - which is not really all that compatible - and so on). Drawing any © conclusions from the fact that two systems provide a similar feature is broken at best (and surprisingly similar to what SCO were alleging with regards to IBM's contributions to Linux). There are lots of multi-user operating systems around, many of them vastly different to NT and *nix platforms... Trying to follow the MS conspiracy lines too far will drive you (and every one who has to listen) up the wall. :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "People keep asking me why we aren't married, and he says, 'Every time I am about to ask you, you do something annoying'." - Kate Beckinsale -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
