[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: patrick at mail.zill.net (Patrick Giagnocavo)
" 
" On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Dan Duncan wrote:
" > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
" > > That does not mean that there are not parts of other operating systems in
" > > NT, for example OS/2 did not have TCP/IP support. M/S lifted the BSD
" > > TCP/IP stack for NT, IBM used a different one for their OS/2.
" > 
" > Internally, NT borrowed heavily from VMS.
" 
" too bad they didn't borrow the reliability part...

no personal experience here, but i understand the nt microkernel is
actually pretty good.  the win32 personality layer otoh...

-my- cheap shot: ibm probably wrote their own tcp/ip stack, as good as
bsd's.  ms couldn't, so they stole one...
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