>"Under the hood Windows, unlike Mac OS, is DOS- rather than unix-based" One thing some people might not know is that DOS itself is slightly Unix-based; e.g. t

>"Under the hood Windows, unlike Mac OS, is DOS- rather than unix-based" One thing some people might not know is that DOS itself is slightly Unix-based; e.g. the hierarchical file system (directories within directories), command-line piping (though limited in features as compared to Unix), even the MORE command (ditto), etc. This is as opposed to, and an improvement over, CP/M, for example (a popular predecessor OS to DOS, on mainly 8-bit micros), which didn't have a hierarchical file system (IIRC - I've actually used both, CP/M lightly, DOS a lot, ages ago). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#MS-DOS_takes_over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#MS-DOS_takes_over