Author Topic: "windows based on unix"????  (Read 592 times)

jrigby

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"windows based on unix"????
« on: 16 January 2004, 08:01 »
Havent been here for awhile but I thought you guys could help me with this, today some kid in my IT Essentials class said that windows was based on unix. well me and him went rounds and I havent read or ever heard of this being even somewhat slightly true so I was wondering if you could clarify this for me.

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« Reply #1 on: 16 January 2004, 21:07 »
Depends how you define "based"; but IIRC windows is far from it
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« Reply #2 on: 16 January 2004, 21:32 »
Windows NT is based upon VMS, which is NOTHING like Unix.

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« Reply #3 on: 16 January 2004, 12:37 »
Not really, myabe the person who told you that was confused about the fact that Windows uses BSD code for its TCP/IP stack.
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« Reply #4 on: 16 January 2004, 15:25 »
What's so great about the BSD license anyway? Companies like just use it to slack on TCP/IP programming (they even have an /etc directory for compatibility "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc").

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« Reply #5 on: 16 January 2004, 15:34 »
The Linux TCP/IP Stack pwns freebsd in a few ways.

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« Reply #6 on: 16 January 2004, 19:10 »
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Originally posted by Refalm:
What's so great about the BSD license anyway? Companies like just use it to slack on TCP/IP programming (they even have an /etc directory for compatibility "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc").


The BSD licence sucks.
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« Reply #7 on: 16 January 2004, 19:37 »
quote:
Originally posted by Tux:


The BSD licence sucks.



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« Reply #8 on: 17 January 2004, 00:44 »
quote:
Originally posted by Tux:
Not really, myabe the person who told you that was confused about the fact that Windows uses BSD code for its TCP/IP stack.


well the kid I was arguing with over this probably doesn even know what tcp/ip is