History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Operating System

Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera... by nickpsecurity on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:08PM (#12662670)

Appreciate the tips. In case you don't have it, here's the reference showing all the VMS stuff in NT:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...

Be interesting at some point to collect all the attributes of NT to see what came from VMS, OS/2, UNIX, DOS, Win 3.x, etc. Then one might also see how it could be done even better esp without baggage. :)

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Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera... by pjmlp on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:33PM (#12662873)

Attending a session about the Windows internals at Microsoft was an eye opener for me, back when Windows 2000 was the latest version.

For those of us that enjoy delving into OS details, Windows is full of interesting goodies.

Even the way .NET is integrated with the OS, is somehow similar to how bytecode and JITs used to work in mainframes.

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Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera... by nickpsecurity on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:41PM (#12663399)

I always liked the architecture but just hated implementation and holdovers from prior business. Another goodie was how the DOS, etc subsystems are similar to the current container craze. I just wish BeOS advantages got merged in there early on. They buy them or something.

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