From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 12:21:41 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: <20180204091435.GA22841@indra.papnet.eu> References: <20180204091435.GA22841@indra.papnet.eu> Message-ID: <00d001d39ddc$a069a380$e13cea80$@ronnatalie.com> > None of these APIs is native to NT, they're implemented on top of it. > I think only at boot you can run code that uses the NT API directly. Amusingly, I have a device in my airplane that runs NT4 without any Windows graphical API on it. You can see the thing printing the NT4 startup and build number when you power it on and it will BSOD. I actually worked with the n10 and i860. IBM build a 4 processor i860 card. We ported the 370/386 AIX to it. The only non x86 chip I worked with NT on was the iTanium (or as we called it the iTanic). I might have had an NT Alpha around but we pretty much were an OSF/1 shop at the time.