From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,101730fbd6919745 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-16 13:12:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor) Date: 16 Apr 2002 13:12:54 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204161212.50c5b5b5@posting.google.com> References: <4519e058.0204080645.32b63ee1@posting.google.com> <7vvgb0ngnk.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <4519e058.0204121314.5daae178@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018987975 757 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 20:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2002 20:12:55 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22617 Date: 2002-04-16T20:12:55+00:00 List-Id: "Juergen Pfeifer" wrote in message news:... > If you want to look Windows more like Unix and want to port Software more > easily to a Win2K environment, then you should perhaps wait until Windows > Services for Unix V 3.0 will be released. This contains a full blown Unix > subsystem on top of the NT microkernel, so this runs parallel to Win32 and > not on top of it as some kind of emulation layer (this has been formerly > known as Interix, but the new version is a reasonable improvement over the > last version). This is not free but is a product, but its quite affordable. > This "Microsoft Unix" is state of the art and has shared libs, a lot of GNU > software on it and much more. We had 1.0 and 2.0 here (we needed NFS). I don't suppose this "Microsoft Unix" would happen to be a relabeled MKS Unix tools distribution? There was a "demo version" of it on the 1.0 and 2.0 CD's. As I remember, it was about $500. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html