Is it just / ?

I kid. But really, besides “its all a file”, if you take away the gui, is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?

If we stripped all ms’s junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?

When you get to a very basic level, is one of them more efficiently coded?

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    OpenVMS is still semi-maintained. It’s DEC’s old operating system that Windows NT draws some inspiration from because Microsoft hired a bunch of ex-DEC engineers.

    There’s also 9front, a fork of Bell Labs’ Plan9.

    Wegmans’ checkout uses Toshiba 4690 OS, which I think is vaguely descended from CP/M.

    I think IBM still maintains their i operating system, which used to be called OS/400.

    Network equipment like enterprise routers and switches tend to run weird unique things, Cisco equipment runs IOS and Adtran equipment runs AOS.