On 19/04/2014 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.

Yup... in fact the native Win NT API even shares many system call names
with VMS. (The Win32 which people often mistake for the windows native
API was supposed to be just one of many possible APIs including POSIX)


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Cheers,

John.

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