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I thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.
by bobajeff 2y ago
I thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.
- markhahn 2y agoNo, NT was a re-engineering of the kernel, mostly with Mach-microkernel influence, but also with input from VMS. I think the point is that people who whinge (like here) about Unix are actually complaining about Unix filesystems and user-space. I'm not so sure they care about how exactly privileged execution is partitioned (or not).
- qsdf38100 2y agoNot sure if it's true, but I've heard than WNT is VMS + 1, so to speak, with each letter "incremented". I believe the team behind WNT had previously worked on VMS.