4 Feb
2019
4 Feb
'19
12:37 a.m.
On Sunday, February 3, 2019, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
And also don't forget that Xenix had the largest UNIX installed base
measured by the number of machines it was installed on. People talking
about BSD and System V in the 80s, but it was Xenix that ruled on micros.
So at the time Microsoft offered both UNIX and MS-DOS.
--Andy
Without Unix, Microsoft would not have created Microsoft "Windows".
I'd like to see some evidence for that; without Unix, what would we be
running now? I doubt whether it would've been Linux, there being no
inspiration for it...
My vague (and rough) recollection is CP/M -> DOS -> Windows.
Even it has roots in Unix.
Only inasmuch as it has directories, users, and permissions (which any
semi-decent OS would have anyway)... Admittedly I have never compromised
my integrity by using/programming it, so I am willing to be corrected.
And yes, I know about POSIX compatibility, but so is Linux, and it's
different enough from Unix to be damned annoying.
-- Dave
Keep in mind that the MS-DOS 2 "handles" API for file access is based
*directly* on Xenix, and replaced the MS-DOS 1 "FCB" API borrowed from CP/M.