Xah Lee's Unixism

Andre Majorel amajorel at teezer.fr
Tue Aug 31 06:55:56 EDT 2004


On 2004-08-31, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:12:55 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers,
> Andre Majorel <amajorel at teezer.fr> wrote:
>
>>On 2004-08-30, Antony Sequeira <usemyfullname at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Windows (MS) is not 'Unixism'?
>>
>>If by unixism, you mean any operating system that has a
>>hierarchical filesystem and byte stream files, yes. But that
>>would include quite a few other non-Unix operating systems,
>>including Mac OS 9, Prologue and probably everything else this
>>side of CP/M (DOS 1.x shall be deemed to be CP/M).
>
> DOS 2.x+ shall be deemed to be CP/M+! 

Wasn't it in version 2 that they added directories and
Unix-style file handles ?

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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.



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