Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:49:17 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Message-ID: <057501be51a5$33b360c0$ed3ce4cf@danco.home>
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>NT is very definitely *not* UNIX, and it's not derived from it. But >it passes the specification for UNIX 95%. That's the point I was >making. I don't know where to find that, but you might try snooping >around the OpenGroup's web pages. Thanks, I'll check it out... >No, NT has nothing to do with OS/2. They gave OS/2 up as a bad job >(presumably from a marketing point of view) and got a guy in from DEC >who had been working with a successor to VMS (take the next letter for >each of the initials and you get WNT :-). Kind of like 2001: A Space Odyssey -- HAL + 0x10101 = IBM :-) --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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