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[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat
Did MSFT finally fix "libraries" and make them part of the file system,
not just some GUI lib? Drives me nuts when things behave differently
from powershell/cmd.exe than in a GUI.
On 08/06/2015 09:36 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> They did. But they should have made the posix subsystem permanent and tied it in to win32 as am optionally usable API. Eh. History.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>>
>> Didn't MS steal the leading VMS systems guy from DEC and have him design NT, if memory serves me correctly?
>>
>>> On 08/06/2015 03:15 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>>> And don't get me started on serial ports! Why Microsoft took inspiration from VMS and not POSIX is beyond me.
>>
>
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