Xah Lee's Unixism

[Walter Bushell]

In article <%T%Yc.29567$Es2.11957889 at news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>,
 "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.

And they got beat to Unixhood  (or UnixDoom) by Apple.

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