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Just about every popular general purpose operating system is some variation on UNIX. Including Windows 9x which is based on DOS which is based on Xenix which i
by dec0dedab0de 10y ago
Just about every popular general purpose operating system is some variation on UNIX.
Including Windows 9x which is based on DOS which is based on Xenix which is based on Unix. I didn't learn this until a few years ago, and it always seems to shock people in tech conversations.
- rskar 10y agoDOS isn't based on Xenix at all. It's a clone of CP/M, and CP/M was its own thing for 8-bit CPUs (and later 16-bit).
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoWhoops, Thank you for that. I think I misinterpreted this thread when it was new, and then never questioned it any further. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466952