Comments on: All Operating Systems Turn To Unix http://pthree.org/2008/07/30/all-operating-systems-turn-to-unix/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha By: Joseph Scott http://pthree.org/2008/07/30/all-operating-systems-turn-to-unix/#comment-105426 Joseph Scott Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:07:46 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=639#comment-105426 I find this quote by Henry Spencer sums things up pretty well: <blockquote> Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. </blockquote> From <a href="http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.space.shuttle/msg/442b343281a7de34" rel="nofollow">late 1987</a> Oliver - As for Windows NT being Unix-like, I think you are confusing that with VMS. The original lead (Dave Cutle) for WinNT also was a lead developer on VMS at DEC. I find this quote by Henry Spencer sums things up pretty well:

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

From late 1987

Oliver – As for Windows NT being Unix-like, I think you are confusing that with VMS. The original lead (Dave Cutle) for WinNT also was a lead developer on VMS at DEC.

]]> By: Oliver Herold http://pthree.org/2008/07/30/all-operating-systems-turn-to-unix/#comment-105421 Oliver Herold Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:20:11 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=639#comment-105421 >After abandoning OS/2, they placed their focus with Windows NT. And there is lot of UNIX know how in NT4, because of many UNIX-engineers. But in the end UNIX isn't POSIX, it is not a mere trademark, it is not something you can cut out. UNIX is apart from trademarks and public relation somewhat of a habitus. >All Operating Systems Turn To Unix So in the end it's different, all operating systems turn to the desktop and nobody cares about UNIX anymore. It's not something I like, but it's the reality. It's maybe not the reality for the computer scientist, but it is the reality for the rest of us. >After abandoning OS/2, they placed their focus with Windows NT.

And there is lot of UNIX know how in NT4, because of many UNIX-engineers.

But in the end UNIX isn’t POSIX, it is not a mere trademark, it is not something you can cut out. UNIX is apart from trademarks and public relation somewhat of a habitus.

>All Operating Systems Turn To Unix

So in the end it’s different, all operating systems turn to the desktop and nobody cares about UNIX anymore. It’s not something I like, but it’s the reality. It’s maybe not the reality for the computer scientist, but it is the reality for the rest of us.

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