[Gllug] HP Compaq?

[John Hearns]

Gordon Joly wrote:

>
>>
>>  > No, it isn't; for God's sake don't believe everything you read. 
>> That's
>>
>>>  like saying NT is a UNIX because it has a POSIX compatibility
>>>  subsystem.
>>
>>
>> It *is* a UNIX - simply because IBM have the necessary license for the
>> name and they market it as such. It's nothing like Unix underneath, but
>> then neither is AIX.
>
>
>
> I find this very hard to believe.
>
> Does NT have a kernel? Does it have /proc/?
>
> Is there always a process "1"?


Take one letter off WNT. What do you get?

It's VMS - and developed by Dave Cutler.
http://www.rephil.org/vmsnt.html

Hate to say it, but there was a time, long ago,
when there were great hopes for NT  - remember that it has a HAL,
and once ran on x86, ALPHA and MIPS architectures.
AFAIK, many research institutes and universities wanted to migrate to it
straight from VMS.  

I know it is shocking and provocative to say this, but at the time 
heavy-duty
scientific computation wasn't commonly done on Unix.
Unix was for researchy types in CompSci, not for big butch mainframes.
(OK, OK, there's UNICOS on your Cray).

There's a very good article by Ben Segal in the CERN Courier,
charting the emergence of Unix/Linux in this sphere.
http://cerncourier.com/main/article/41/6/15/1









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