Re: [SURVPC] Unix Clones (Was: Virtual Conventional Memory)

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Boanne Lorraine wrote:
> If Windows is a Unix clone, then does this mean DOS is also?
> I thought DOS was a rip-off (by Bill Gates) of CP/M, but I don't
> know anything before CP/M...did CP/M come from Unix?

As far as I understood, CP/M cloned the general UNIX interface.
(Do notice how similiar is the general idea with both UNIX/Linux's
and DOS's CLI is. Besides the drives in DOS and the flexibility of
UNIX, they got almost the same principle working)

Windows is just a GUI shell program written for DOS.

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