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Re:Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be ... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:33AM (#17547348)
NT isn't a copy of UNIX, just because it had support for the first edition of POSIX, it goes beyond than that.

Starting by wanting to copy Minix, an educational OS that copied UNIX, getting the GNU tools on board (which goal was to copy UNIX), kernel architecture, device drivers subsystems, userland, culture, ....

My old stack of Linux Journal editions at home are pretty clear what the ongoing story was.

If NT was a copy of anything, it was VMS given Dave Cutler's contribution to its design.

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