From: "Bob Jonkman" Organization: SOBAC Microcomputer Services To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:00:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash... Message-ID: <39F89B56.16919.1223E34D@localhost> X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Bob Jonkman" X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <006801c03f76$98079b20$11fea8c0@dell> X-PM-Encryptor: QDPGP, 4 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I want to tell you what Ben A L Jemmett 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iQCVAwUBOfjTlKLoCveuM+mJAQGNBgP/Z291PRwbegLrhXioMb6lNnetJWQKuUxw 9DHYFetQBSuJshTi0YNTUJcTlwV69EeSpXAcYuPh0Lvnd5SmVJCxQGsE/45QT9Wv /wuQjq1fawtZ56/A5CBR25qU0JSV3a5rgMXlQbqZZXXbxW0qGinXdTnxM1VJt4Kg 8DIrigIck3k= =aFTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ===== Bob Jonkman Voice: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services E-Fax: +1-603-308-6118 6 James Street mailto:bjonkman AT sobac DOT com Elmira Ontario N3B 1L5 Canada Networking -- Office & Business Automation -- Consulting RSA Fingerprint: 9FAF A6AC B567 BC10 8973 7CF0 CB27 0317 RSA ID: 0xAE33E989 mailto:bjonkman AT sobac DOT com?subject=send_key Web site temporarily at http://members.home.com/bjonkman