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7 Sep 2024 11:23:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: OS what-ifs  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 Aug 2008 20:25:13
Message: <48a4cce9@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> Um, I think you'll find that Linux is a derivative of Minix, not UNIX.  
> At best it's Unix-like.

I don't know you'd call it a "derivative" of either, really. Clearly the 
whole thing is very UNIX-like, and since I'm only talking about the 
design of the OS (the UI, the API, the file system layout, etc), it 
doesn't really matter either way, since Minix and Unix both share the 
whole *ix bit.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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