Xah Lee's Unixism
John Thingstad
john.thingstad at chello.no
Thu Sep 2 14:32:09 EDT 2004
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:19:43 +0000 (UTC), Andre Majorel
<amajorel at teezer.fr> wrote:
> On 2004-09-02, John Thingstad <john.thingstad at chello.no> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I feel compelled to point out that Linux achieved considerably
> better stability after just a few years.
>
I feel compelled to replay that Linux is based on the Posix standard which
is basically a recipie for writing unix. They did not write a new
operating system. They implemented a tested and proven one.
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