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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
- Message-ID: <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 05:47:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rmkhome.9212250048.05
- References: <64@nearside.UUCP> <1992Dec21.195317.10599@vpbuild.vp.com> <id.JO3W.L13@ferranti.com>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Lines: 21
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- In article <id.JO3W.L13@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.195317.10599@vpbuild.vp.com> jessea@u013.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
- >> Besides, NT IS Unix with Windows on top of it.
- >
- >How do you figure? The API, software architecture, programming model, what
- >you want to call it has no relation whatsoever to any version of UNIX I'm
- >familiar with (basically, anything since 5th Edition through System V, Xenix,
- >and a number of iterations of BSD).
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- According to my friends who have to program for it, NT has no relation to
- any operating system known to man, and they wish it would go away.
-
- One friend of mine applauds it, because it will pay him $60k or more for
- the next ten years adding all the missing parts to it.
-
- That's reality.
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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