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Was POSIX ever really intended to apply to a non-UNIX OS, e.g., VMS? The Windows kernel is based on the VMS kernel, right? And NTFS is based on the VMS filesy
by ised 11y ago
Was POSIX ever really intended to apply to a non-UNIX OS, e.g., VMS?
The Windows kernel is based on the VMS kernel, right?
And NTFS is based on the VMS filesystem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_cutler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_cutler
I would have been happy with VMS on the PC.
Instead we got Windoze. How much of our lives has this monstrosity wasted? Just let it die.
Do daemontools' supervise and svscan need fork()?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoPosix was an API standard, implementable anywhere. The very first POSIX implementation I assisted with, and it ran on CTOS which had a message-passing kernel and built-in networking. Nothing like Unix or Windows.
- ised 11y agoSomehow it just became strongly associated with UNIX? Or UNIX became the embodiment of the concept of "run anywhere"?