"ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:46:47 +0000, dennis@home wrote:
>
>> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
>> news:63opgkF28fue1U3@mid.individual.net...
>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:04:51 +0000, dennis@home wrote:
>>>
>>>> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:63no6fF284nq0U4@mid.individual.net...
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:58:54 +0200, bamboozle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> modern as in linux that is 20 years old? lol
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm afraid you are wrong there. Linus Torvalds did not even start
>>>>> work on Linux until 1991. Unless my math skills have completely
>>>>> deteriorated, 1991 + 20 = 2011 - and it's only 2008 now!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Don't forget that Linux is a copy of a much older OS kernel than that.
>>>> Its not as though Linus invented something new.
>>>
>>> It's not a "copy of a much older OS kernel". Linus was inspired to
>>> start on it by minix. But it is a complete, original work.
>>
>> It is a copy of unix at the time.. it has the same API's. Some say it
>> has stolen the code ( I had both sets of code so I know the answer to
>> that BTW).
>>
>>> It has also changed
>>> much since it's inception.
>>
>> Linux hasn't changed in advance of unix until the likes of SGI and IBM
>> started rewriting bits of it to sort out the kernel and filesystems. It
>> has always followed unix.. because it copies unix.
>>
>> Don't bother trying to confuse everyone by throwing in gnome and cr@p
>> like that as they have nothing to do with Linus or Linux.
>
> And similarly, vista is a copy of dos which is a copy of CP/M.

Really?
I thought dos used similar commands to cp/m but didn't actually copy the
APIs.
If you know different..

Linus however just copied the APIs and the internal functions as well as he
could.