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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (blogsystem5.substack.com)
submitted 10 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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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything?

NT was very advanced compared to its prior Kernel, not compared to Unix.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Basically, they developed a nice kernel with POSIX compatibility but then choose to ignore that part in the upper layers and explorer.exe?