From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 16:22:59 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: <62376536-f247-2026-82cb-1defdcca7976@telegraphics.com.au> References: <20180204091435.GA22841@indra.papnet.eu> <00d001d39ddc$a069a380$e13cea80$@ronnatalie.com> <62376536-f247-2026-82cb-1defdcca7976@telegraphics.com.au> Message-ID: On Sunday, February 4, 2018, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2018-02-04 3:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Ron Natalie > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: