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believe it or not Windows has actually had a POSIX subsystem since the NT days, and MS still provide it for Windows 8. I'm not sure what POSIX certified means,
by blibble 14y ago
believe it or not Windows has actually had a POSIX subsystem since the NT days, and MS still provide it for Windows 8.
I'm not sure what POSIX certified means, but Windows is UNIX in the same way Mac OS X is...
- radio4fan 14y agoWikipedia has this (and more) to say on POSIX: Not to be confused with Unix, Unix-like, or Linux. POSIX (pron.: /ˈpɒzɪks/ poz-iks), an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix The old MS POSIX subsystem was replaced by the amusingly named SFU (Services for UNIX). Then that got replaced by the bought-in Interix. Mac OS X is UNIX because it's certified under the Single UNIX Specification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification Windows is not in any way UNIX. There aren't even any certified Linux distros (AFAIK). Mac OS X is UNIX.
- _Simon 14y agoOther than the fact OS X is a certified UNIX and the NT kernel isn't UNIX, yes...