Xah Lee's Unixism

[John W. Kennedy]

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, John W. Kennedy wrote:
>>Yes, and also a single-process pipe emulator.  Ever since 2.0, MS has
>>been trying to turn MS-DOS (later, Windows) into a Unix clone.

> .... And has failed miserably to do so.

Not entirely.  Porting GNU software and the like to MS-DOS and Windows 
could be a hell of a lot more difficult than it is.  Try porting almost 
anything to, for example, the MVS (classic) environment (which is why 
MVS now also includes a Unix-wise alternate environment).

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is 
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. 
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
   -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"