[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

[Michael Trausch]

They did. But they should have made the posix subsystem permanent and tied it in to win32 as am optionally usable API. Eh. History. 

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> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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> Didn't MS steal the leading VMS systems guy from DEC and have him design NT, if memory serves me correctly?
> 
>> On 08/06/2015 03:15 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> And don't get me started on serial ports! Why Microsoft took inspiration from VMS and not POSIX is beyond me.
> 

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