From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 23:50:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07412 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07365 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:50:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max3-45.gbis.net [207.228.60.237]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA24797; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:49:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <057501be51a5$33b360c0$ed3ce4cf@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:49:17 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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