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Was POSIX ever really intended to apply to a non-UNIX OS, e.g., VMS?

The Windows kernel is based on the VMS kernel, right?

And NTFS is based on the VMS filesystem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_cutler

I would have been happy with VMS on the PC.

Instead we got Windoze. How much of our lives has this monstrosity wasted? Just let it die.

Do daemontools' supervise and svscan need fork()?




Posix was an API standard, implementable anywhere. The very first POSIX implementation I assisted with, and it ran on CTOS which had a message-passing kernel and built-in networking. Nothing like Unix or Windows.


Somehow it just became strongly associated with UNIX?

Or UNIX became the embodiment of the concept of "run anywhere"?




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