Xah Lee's Unixism

[John Thingstad]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:35:30 GMT, Brian Inglis  
<Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:26:03 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, "John W.
> Kennedy" <jwkenne at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Andre Majorel wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.
>
> MS has been borrowing code from Unix to create a real OS: TCP/IP;
> NTFS<-ffs; memory mapped files<-mmap.
> Shame they keep trying to add their own ideas in too: that must be
> what causes the crashes!
>

You seeem misinformed.
Microsoft swallowed up a team from DEC.
The were developing a operating system called PRISM.
When the project was cancelled they quit DEC in protest.
These peaple had more than a 100 years of experience in developing  
muliuser /
mutitasking operating systems between them. The fact that the NT kernel is  
not
entirely stable yet really shouldn't supprise anyone. Afterall Unix has  
messed with
it's kernel for 30 years. But the modular arcitecture and the microkernel  
are new ideas in
OS design and should in time lead to a more extensible OS than unix.
(Unix tradionally has a spagetti of intercalling function calls as a  
kernel.)
As for following standards thats just plain sense.
Note the Mac OS 10 / Darwin uses a unix kernel because of all the problems  
with
interoperabillity OS 9 had with talking to Windows and Unix boxes.

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