From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 23:08:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03781 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA17257; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:38:23 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id RAA80530; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:38:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:38:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: Randall Senn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Message-ID: <19990206173822.J79703@freebie.lemis.com> References: <051001be519e$66955d60$ed3ce4cf@danco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <051001be519e$66955d60$ed3ce4cf@danco.home>; from Dan O'Connor on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:00:36PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 23:00:36 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: >> Microsoft's "NT" environment is UNIX. > > A friend of mine was also told this at an IBM point-of-sale system AIX > seminar. Do you know of any documentation on this? I can't find anywhere > where Microsoft admits to NT be derived from Unix. 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. > When hard drive support was added to PC-DOS, Microsoft incorporated more > Unix-like commands (albeit with a renegade \ directory delimiter and a / > switch character), but I've never seen anything suggesting NT (ne-OS/2) > *was* Unix. 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 :-). > If it is, it begs the question: Why is NT less stable and less > robust than Unix? If it isn't, it still begs that question. Even given the fact that Microsoft doesn't have to care, I can't understand it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message