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exu@feditown.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

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NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
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    dont forget darwin aka MacOS

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      And iOS, making Unix one of the largest operating systems on the planet

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        Basically mac os and ios is actually same thing both use darwin kernel same graphical stack.

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        That would be Minix 3, I think, because it runs in (yes, in) all modern Intel CPU’s.

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          Oh yeah, I forgot about management engine

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          in

          and with one word, the conversation becomes deeply political.

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        One of?

        I’m going with the largest, by a huge margin. Unix and it’s descendents run everything. Even MS uses it for some things.

        Unix has been around since 1969-ish, that’s 20 years before NT.

        And I’ve use NT every day since it came out.

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          I don’t consider Linux based os’s Unix, which takes most servers and android out of the running. Unix might still be bigger, idk

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