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Xah Lee's Unixism

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid
Thu Sep 2 04:35:30 EDT 2004 
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:26:03 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, "John W.
Kennedy" <jwkenne at attglobal.net> wrote:

>Andre Majorel wrote:
>> On 2004-08-31, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:12:55 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers,
>>>Andre Majorel <amajorel at teezer.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 2004-08-30, Antony Sequeira <usemyfullname at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Windows (MS) is not 'Unixism'?
>>>>
>>>>If by unixism, you mean any operating system that has a
>>>>hierarchical filesystem and byte stream files, yes. But that
>>>>would include quite a few other non-Unix operating systems,
>>>>including Mac OS 9, Prologue and probably everything else this
>>>>side of CP/M (DOS 1.x shall be deemed to be CP/M).
>>>
>>>DOS 2.x+ shall be deemed to be CP/M+! 
>> 
>> 
>> Wasn't it in version 2 that they added directories and
>> Unix-style file handles ?
>
>Yes, and also a single-process pipe emulator.  Ever since 2.0, MS has 
>been trying to turn MS-DOS (later, Windows) into a Unix clone.

MS has been borrowing code from Unix to create a real OS: TCP/IP;
NTFS<-ffs; memory mapped files<-mmap. 
Shame they keep trying to add their own ideas in too: that must be
what causes the crashes! 

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