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From:	"Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<20001026 DOT 023925 DOT -12411 DOT 0 DOT domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:21:35 +0100
Organization:	Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> Bill Gates himself claims NT is UNIX
Vaguely credible, sort of.  NT is based on the VMS architecture and contains
some DOS-like bits (DOS borrowing from QDOS from CP/M from UNIX), and VMS
and UNIX are sort of similar in terms of security model, AFAICT (having not
worked with VMS myself, I'm going on secondhand quotes here).

> and all
> other UNIX versions are incompatible clones
By definition, a clone is a copy of something.  Since NT wasn't around until
the early 90s, and UNIX was written in the 60s/70s, that somewhat precludes
that statement.

> Anyone want to try for 32bit CPM?  It is alive and well on the www.
FlexOS is a concurrent CP/M based DOS for 32-bit machines, IIRC.  Based on
DOS Plus I think, which is why Caldera can't release DOS Plus under GPL.

[NewDeal / GEOS]
> The last one I tried was a 16bit version and looks like
> GEM only with more icons
Yes, they have similar interfaces.  I don't think the underlying stuff is at
all similar though, although I've worked a lot more extensively with GEM
than with GEOS.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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