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To: rudedog who wrote (32683)	9/11/1998 1:16:00 AM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) of 97611

companies who adopt this architecture can write programs which run equally well on either Unix or NT platforms I am sure this is true but I have always wondered how this is done. I mean there are a lot of things that are fundamentally different. NT has its own APIs, many of which are peculiar to NT only, and even things as basic as the directory slashes (/ vs \) are different. How is all this handled? I guess there is some "conversion API" that is called up as a headder and converts Unix resident code to NT and vice versa? Sounds like a monster job. Another question is the future of DEC Unix. It's probably the right thing to work with MSFT but doesn't it put the final nail in the coffin of VMS? Making NT transparent to Unix will just make the inevitable domination by NT come faster. Is CPQ saying the game is over so lets work with MSFT and let VMS die?

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