[Colchester] I'm Confused!!!

[Chris Pritchard]

Same as windows NT, that is all MS's own work (I've seen the source),  
it's bloody hard work, but there are other non-UNIX OS's out there

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On 17 Oct 2008, at 23:02, toby <toby.whaymand at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> The Amiga OS and all the the non-Unix type OS don't really work on a
> modern PC because of the hardware architecture right? or so I
> believed...
>
> So an OS really need to be a sub-directory of UNIX, for example, Linux
> or BSD to be able to work on the majority of home computers... Not
> including the hardware that do not Open Source there coding like, for
> example, some video cards..
>
> I really do not understand how the SkyOS have written the kernel from
> nothing and so it is all there own coding and yet been able to get the
> OS to work on the majority of machines?
>
> Don't get me wrong I don't think it worth the 30 Euros to download the
> apparently non UNIX OS because not a lot of application work on it and
> it depends on Elimination software to run most Linux applications. I'm
> just curious on how they managed to write an OS that is not related to
> UNIX in any way...
>
> What is noticeable is that the team are keeping the coding very  
> tight to
> themselves and only a few trusted developers actually have access to
> it.... Makes you wonder...
>
> Thanks
>
> Toby
>
>
>
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