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Disappointing that the author didn't seem aware of Windows NT's connections to VMS. Some fun facts:

• Dave Cutler, the WNT lead architect, previously worked on VMS.
• Several of WNT's internal systems bear similarity to those in VMS.
• VMS is a closer contemporary of Unix than WNT is.
• Advancing each letter in "VMS" yields "WNT". (It has long been speculated that this was no accident.)

Unix’s history is long—much longer than NT’s. Unix’s development started in 1969 and its primary goal was to be a convenient platform for programmers. Unix was inspired by Multics, but compared to that other system, Unix focused on simplicity which is a trait that let it triumph over Multics.

On the other hand, NT's design derived from VMS's design, and a lot of people who built the latter system were involved with creating NT.

https://www.itprotoday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything?

NT was very advanced compared to its prior Kernel, not compared to Unix.

I recently watched a presentation (on YouTube from a conference/offline presentation) about Systemd which also went into its focus/baseline of Linux, not Unix, and how NT supported a stronger service concept from the beginning. It was quite interesting to learn about the differences and the presenter's assessment and reasoning of the necessity of Systemd or something else that replaces or extends init and rc.d.

• The Tragedy of Systemd

Basically, they developed a nice kernel with POSIX compatibility but then choose to ignore that part in the upper layers and explorer.exe?