Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Mendel Yan wrote in a message to Craig Vincent:
 MY> I don't know you hear such rumor or not - Microsoft originally 
 MY> wants to release a MS UNIX in drafting NT prototype. You will find 
 MY> NT has many sides which are similiar to UNIX system.
Not really unix, but POSIX-compliant. And David Cutler, one of the main
designers of NT, used to be working for DEC and was an important developer of
DEC's PDP/11 and VAX minicomputers and it's VMS operating system. NT's
architecture looks more like VMS than like unix. Although the microkernel 
itself
has a lot of unix similarities (preemptive multitasking, multi-threaded,
anonymous and named pipes, shared memory, etc.)...
Regards,
Erik 
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