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?

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    22 days ago

    You rather should ask what separates Windows from all the Unix-likes. Windows is the weird one, not Linux.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      21 days ago

      This got me thinking, are there any other non-Unix-based OS’s left? Really, for any hardware more sophisticated than say, an ESP? At all?

      I honestly can’t think of one.

      • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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        21 days 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.

      • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
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        21 days ago

        The OS bundled with TI-84 Plus CE Python Edition graphing calculators is a wacky one. It runs primarily on an eZ80 core for backwards-compatibility with earlier graphing calculators while also handling an ARM core for Python functions. Parts of the assembly code can be traced back to the TI-82 calculator ROM from 1993.

        Most people wouldn’t think a calculator would ever need a security solution, but it even verifies application signatures so students are less likely to load cheating utilities on them.