On 19/04/14 21:23, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , John
Rumm wrote:

On 19/04/2014 19:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Only Microsoft has its own abortion that isn't *nix derived.

One might argue its VMS derived...

Wasn't that the NT flavour courtesy of Dave Cutler? Even then he had to
be ordered to graft the drive letter **** on top of something that was
otherwise not bad, AIUI.

Microsofts history is having to make each new prince backwards
compatible with a royal abortion that should have been laid to rest in
around 1993.

They had the chance then with Xenix and a share in SCO to actually
create an OS that worked. They muffed it. Well on fact they didnt, they
created the whole PC-UNIX thing that lead in the end to Linux!

Every time -the same thing happened with OS/2 - they could have done an
OS-X and jumped from msdos to a better foundation they chickened out and
NT was severely compromised by being dOSSIFIED.



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