Comment on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unix is literally the most important operating system (specification) family on the planet. Even bigger than M$ Windows. You’ve got all the Android phones, all the Apple iPhones, macOS, FreeBSD and all the GNU/Linux distributions. Unix-like installed base is by far the largest of any on the planet.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t forget… The internet basically runs on it too :D

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• anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think any modern unix-like operation systems: bsd based,linux based,haiku,minix and other else hundred branches.

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  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    dont forget darwin aka MacOS

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And iOS, making Unix one of the largest operating systems on the planet

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      • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Basically mac os and ios is actually same thing both use darwin kernel same graphical stack.

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      • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That would be Minix 3, I think, because it runs in (yes, in) all modern Intel CPU’s.

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      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        One of?

        I’m going with the largest, by a huge margin. Unix and it’s descendents run everything. Even MS uses it for some things.

        Unix has been around since 1969-ish, that’s 20 years before NT.

        And I’ve use NT every day since it came out.

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This was most likely posted by a kid who just thinks Unix is “old” Linux and doesn’t understand the roots of what it actually means in terms of computing.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I haven’t yet read the article, but it may well be a comparison for which Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris can be united under the Unix umbrella as systems with monolithic kernels and similar conventions. Of course FreeBSD is much cooler than Linux and Solaris is much cooler than FreeBSD, but we get what we get.

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