4 Feb
2019
4 Feb
'19
6:32 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 09:07:52AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
It's what you are used to. I haven't tried it but apparently Microsoft
has implemented the Linux syscall layer that you can just drop a distro
on top of windows and the binaries work.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
Yep.
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.