> Unix’s history is long—much longer than NT’s Fun fact: NT is a spiritual (and in some cases, literal) successor of VMS, which itself is a direct descendant o

> Unix’s history is long—much longer than NT’s Fun fact: NT is a spiritual (and in some cases, literal) successor of VMS, which itself is a direct descendant of the RSX family of operating systems, which are themselves a descendant of a process control family of task runners from 1960. Unix goes back to 1964 - Multics. Although yeah, Unix definitely has a much longer unbroken chain.