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Comment by surfingdino

> NT had userspace, protected memory, etc, and a GUI for setting up TCP/IP.

That's because Microsoft hired Dave Cutler who previously worked on VMS and knew what he was doing. Microsoft even had their own Unix, but didn't know what to do with it.

parent surfingdino 2 years ago

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