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it's ironic that both NT and UNIX have roots in the mid-1970s and that both were influenced by many identical theoretical OS concepts and principles

Although most UNIX variants today support either the POSIX or X/OPEN standard, every UNIX vendor has tried to differentiate its offering with a proprietary interface, applications, and architecture.

http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/nt-vsunix-one-sub... [1998]

AmigaOs is underused solely because it's superior.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WimpIsBroken

My concrete proposal is to avoid using concrete.




I don't understand. How is Amiga not WIMP?




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