Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT.
Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
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#42“OS/2 is the dominant workstation product” In what universe other than maybe some banks was that the case? 1995 was the era of the commercial UNIX workstation.
This is answered in the comments section of the article. It was dominant in the place the author worked. Had 15k OS/2 workstations.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally. I don't want to derail the conversation too much but when I look at what Notch has become since he became a billionaire it's frankly pathetic. Princes & Kings Isn't it strange how princes and kings, and clowns that caper in sawdust rings, and common people, like you and me, are builders for eternity? Each is given a list of rules; a shapeless mass; a bag of tools. And each must fashion, ere life is flown, A…
What happened to Notch?
Bit down on about every right wing conspiracy theory you can come up with.
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#44“OS/2 is the dominant workstation product” In what universe other than maybe some banks was that the case? 1995 was the era of the commercial UNIX workstation.
This is answered in the comments section of the article. It was dominant in the place the author worked. Had 15k OS/2 workstations.
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#46Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
this. it was pretty straightforward to port to NT modulo a few quirks around shared memory, mmap and fork/exec.
edit. oh yeah, line endings. that sucked. that said, nt had way better multithreading support.
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>It drove me away, sorry I could not read that important message because I could’t be bothered with those animated snowflakes.
I'd hazard to say that it's not the snowflakes on his site that are the problem.
It's a non-commercial, personal site. If you couldn't figure out a work-around (eg reader mode, as someone else suggested) then that's on you.
>Yes, its their website, it’s their right
That's the bottom line. There's plenty of other sites out there that will happily cater to your offended sensibilities.
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#48Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
I'd go for a full-fledged BSD subsystem, myself. From what he wrote on the blog it sounds like this would be a pain in the butt to use for anything substantial.
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I just think they're neat.
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Spoilsport.