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qprimed , (edited )
  • preps for bed
  • starts closing apps
  • refreshes lemmy…

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

  • sigh

edit: back. a really enjoyable read. loved the POV as unix guy poking at NT. g’night for real now, lemmy.

Plopp ,

Right?

sigh

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JWBananas ,
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Moving down the stack, Unix systems have never been big on supporting arbitrary drivers: remember that Unix systems were typically coupled to specific machines and vendors. NT, on the other hand, intended to be an OS for “any” machine and was sold by a software company, so supporting drivers written by others was critical. As a result, NT came with the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), an abstraction to support network card drivers with ease. To this day, manufacturer-supplied drivers are just not a thing on Linux, which leads to interesting contraptions like the ndiswrapper, a very popular shim in the early 2000s to be able to reuse Windows drivers for WiFi cards on Linux.

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InverseParallax ,

Nvidia:

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NeoNachtwaechter ,

Unix? Come on, really?

What is Unix in 2024?

anon5621 ,
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I think any modern unix-like operation systems: bsd based,linux based,haiku,minix and other else hundred branches.

Kerb ,
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dont forget darwin aka MacOS

the_crotch ,

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

ricdeh ,
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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.

ramble81 ,

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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