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By nearly the same token, though, one could say that Windows NT, which is for most practical purposes a descendant of VMS, implemented these ideas... and UNIX l
by jcrawfordor 6y ago
By nearly the same token, though, one could say that Windows NT, which is for most practical purposes a descendant of VMS, implemented these ideas... and UNIX lost out to it.
I think that some version of this dichotomy has existed at nearly every point of computer history where technology allowed it, and that is surprisingly far back!
- Annatar 6y agoHow did UNIX lose out to NT, when market forces coerced Microsoft to include a shoddy copycat version of UNIX named GNU/Linux inside of NT? That is almost the ultimate punishment for Dave "Gettabyte" Cutler, the father of NT and a notorious UNIX hater.