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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (blogsystem5.substack.com)
submitted 2 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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Which brings me to this article—a collection of thoughts comparing the design of NT (July 1993) against contemporary Unix systems such as 4.4BSD (June 1994) or Linux 1.0 (March 1994). Beware that, due to my background, the text is written from the point of view of a Unix “expert” and an NT “clueless”, so it focuses on describing the things that NT does differently.

Long but interesting article that compares the Windows NT kernel to traditional Unix kernels such as that found in BSDs or Linux.

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 months ago

Control+F: VMS

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Disappointing that the author didn't seem aware of Windows NT's connections to VMS. Some fun facts:

  • Dave Cutler, the WNT lead architect, previously worked on VMS.
  • Several of WNT's internal systems bear similarity to those in VMS.
  • VMS is a closer contemporary of Unix than WNT is.
  • Advancing each letter in "VMS" yields "WNT". (It has long been speculated that this was no accident.)