From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:49:35 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson! In-Reply-To: <916A0819-D582-4ABE-B975-0D6EFFEE28B1@gmail.com> References: <916A0819-D582-4ABE-B975-0D6EFFEE28B1@gmail.com> Message-ID: On 2/3/2018 4:35 PM, Will Senn wrote: > Not a day goes by when I am not soooo thankful that I don’t have to live in a windows world I would imagine that Windows wouldn't be what it is today without UNIX. Matter of fact, Windows NT (which is what Windows has been based on since Windows ME went away) is really DEC's VMS underneath the covers at least to a small extent. Would VMS become what it was without UNIX's influence? Would UNIX become what it later was without VMS? Would UNIX exist, or even be close to what it became without DEC? art k.