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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by mort96 on Friday April 11, 2025 @01:55AM (#43650884)
Win32 is an API, while UNIX, NT and GNU are all operating systems made by AT&T, Microsoft and the GNU Project respectively. I agree that the GNU operating system isn't the UNIX operating system, and I agree that the NT operating system isn't the Win32 API, but I have no idea what comparison you're trying to draw.

It almost sounds like you think UNIX is an API like Win32, and that GNU is an operating system which "implements UNIX" like NT is an operating system which "implements Win32"? Are you confusing UNIX with POSIX?

GNU was made to replace UNIX, not to promote it.

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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by anthk on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:22AM (#43651996)
No, I'm not confusing Unix with POSIX, but POSIX today superseded old Unix. What I mean both NT and GNU enhanced and modernized their own subsystems.

Even OpenBSD is not as 'pure Unix' as Unix V7.

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