[time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion- Next Question

Orin Eman orin.eman at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 19:06:22 EDT 2013


Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Microsoft DID sell a re-branded Unix.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Chris Albertson
<albertson.chris at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes,  I'm writing this on an iMac.  I'm a long time BSD Unix user going
> back to about 1980.
>
> Now, FINALLY we can say the UNIX and Linux are the most commonly used OSes
> in the wold as one of those runs on most phones.  Linux is in Androids and
> a unix varient is on iPhones and Macs
>
> I remember going to a talk by Bill Gates, this was in the  pre-Windows ears
> when his main product was MS-DOS.  He said that he would make DOS more and
> more unix-like as PC hardware grew in power.  At that time he did not
> understand what an OS was and they UNIX was just the shell, and worked like
> DOS.  It was was an amusing speak he was completely ignorant about OS
> design.  But he was the exec not the engineer so he did not have to know.
>  Still  Had Windows not surprised them Gates would have done have Apple
> (and Sun and man others) did and simply sold a re-branded UNIX.   What much
> better off we'd all have been
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Mark C. Stephens <marks at non-stop.com.au
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> >
> > The Mac OS X user base is also growing rapidly, with many preferring the
> X
> > desktop to Winders.
> > And, under the hood is BSD unix (sort of).. And there is MkLinux if you
> > don't like OS X..
> >
> > >> It depends of it you want to be the kind of ham who understands radios
> > and can build and design them
> > >> or the kind who would have never remove the cover off his commercial
> > built radio.
> > >> Linux is the best OS for developers and those who like to build gear.
> > >> Windows is better for the "appliance user" crowd.
> >
>


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