DOS was more a CP/M clone than Unix... Unix is structurally multiprocess with virtual memory, and macro kernel.
it is not CP/M or DOS 2014/1/25 Eric Walker <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:34 PM, leaking pen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never heard anyone malign his programming skills. moral character, >> visual design skills, absolutely, but never his coding chops. >> > > Gates was at the helm of Microsoft when it acquired DOS. DOS came out > many years after and was an anorexic imitation of UNIX. It is an > abomination that has lived well beyond its years and caused generations of > developers great harm and suffering. Gates may have acquired the software > for tactical purposes, or he may have thought it was a beautiful piece of > software; I would bet he didn't know any better and thought it was pretty > cool. > > Eric > >
