From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela)
Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!)
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 16:22:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGjGCmCs4QjUqUpvPCrMhHbGEQvn_LFsMYNyge1S+YB3Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62376536-f247-2026-82cb-1defdcca7976@telegraphics.com.au>
On Sunday, February 4, 2018, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On 2018-02-04 3:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com
> > <mailto:ron at ronnatalie.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > BSOD on an airplane? That sounds kind of scary.
> >
> > One time I was poking around a US Navy landing craft after coming off an
> > amphibious assault ship and somehow found myself down in the engine
> > room. The computer controlling either the engines or the screws was
> > running some variant of Windows. It wasn't my bailiwick at the time (I
> > was a Marine officer; I wasn't even *supposed* to be there ... but I was
> > curious and pretty much had the run of the boat as long as I didn't
> > touch anything) but it sort of scared me.
>
> You might remember this:
> https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/
>
>
I like the following part from this article:
"Vendors including Oracle, Informix, and Computer Associates have
_recently_ announced plans to support Linux".
No mention of *BSD systems which were also open source at the time.
This was the beginning of the decline of *BSD systems in the server market
and it was 20 years ago. Things went much more downhill since then...
--Andy
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2018-02-04 0:37 Dan Cross
2018-02-04 2:59 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-02-04 5:06 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-04 5:18 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-05 19:43 ` Paul Winalski
2018-02-05 21:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-02-06 0:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-02-06 0:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-06 9:14 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-04 9:14 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-02-04 14:15 ` arnold
2018-02-04 17:21 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-04 20:05 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-04 20:55 ` Nemo
2018-02-04 20:57 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-04 20:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-02-04 22:12 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-05 1:32 ` William Cheswick
2018-02-05 1:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04 21:04 ` Toby Thain
2018-02-04 22:22 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2018-02-04 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04 22:54 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-05 3:35 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-05 3:40 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-05 13:48 ` William Cheswick
2018-02-05 14:31 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-05 21:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-05 21:57 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-05 22:31 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-05 23:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-05 23:49 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-06 17:42 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-06 18:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-05 23:10 ` Charles Anthony
2018-02-05 23:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-05 23:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-05 23:36 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-05 23:52 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-06 14:52 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-05 23:18 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-02-06 21:51 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-06 23:14 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-02-06 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-07 3:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-07 1:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-07 1:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 1:54 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 18:01 ` Tony Finch
2018-02-09 2:35 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-07 18:50 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-15 13:23 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-02-05 0:27 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-02-05 0:41 ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-04 9:11 ` Donald ODona
2018-02-04 23:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04 23:46 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-04 23:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-05 0:06 ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-05 5:37 ` Steve Johnson
2018-02-05 5:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-02-05 10:49 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-05 6:57 ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-05 15:20 Doug McIlroy
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