Reading these articles, I'm struck by the refusal to admit influence from other systems (or even point out how Windows' features have inspired the same in other

Reading these articles, I'm struck by the refusal to admit influence from other systems (or even point out how Windows' features have inspired the same in other systems). > For example, Windows had implemented the TransmitFile function for optimizing transmission of files from a web server by doing all the work in kernel mode. Isn't that just sendfile(2) from BSD ? > An application could attach another stream to the file to hold whatever it wanted. The file system guys really didn’t care, and they didn’t interpret the stream. So this was a very natural extension. Isn't that just forks from HFS/+ ? I actually don't know the history behind all of these things, so the influence could have been the other way around (or the features could have been developed completely independently and contemporaneously). Edit: just saw the nod to DEC, so it's not that they're completely absent, just (IMHO conspicuously) missing in some places.