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[ale] Segue from MS threatening the community
- Subject: [ale] Segue from MS threatening the community
- From: hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:12:24 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1179406291.15666.4.camel@sage>
- References: <[email protected]> <1179406291.15666.4.camel@sage>
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
> As I understand it, though, Windows NT is based on ideas and concepts
> from a hybrid of VMS and DOS. DOS was based on CP/M, which was (very,
> very loosely) based on Unix, or so I have heard.
MS-DOS, not so much. But, yes, there's a strong VMS heritage there,
especially since several of the same people were involved in the design
of both. NT's DOS-isms were pretty much implemented as a work-alike.