[ale] Segue from MS threatening the community

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Thu May 17 09:12:24 EDT 2007


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. 



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