From:	"Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman AT sobac DOT com>
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Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:00:06 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
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I want to tell you what Ben A L Jemmett <opendos AT delorie DOT com> said
about "Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was" on 26 Oct 2000, at 18:21

> > 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.

I remember something about NT3.5 supporting Unix (Posix?) system 
calls in the kernel, so that native Unix applications could be re-
compiled to work under NT natively (ie. without an emulator).  Can 
anyone clarify?

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