Actually WIndows NT has always run Unix (Posix) which was the original Linux before Linux. Posix used to come on the CD/Disk set. MS eventually dropped Posix from the box. Now we just load almost any version Linux into a VM.
I am surprised at how many new young users think that Unix is a Microsoft product. THey think theonly competitor is Apple so Unix must be Microsoft. Funny thing that Mac is Unix. OS/X was named for Jobs advanced version of Unix called "neXt" or "X".
The board bought it but wouldn't allow the name.
The problem that jobs solved with Unix was getting rid of X-Windows in favor of the Mac Windows API on Unix. Mac API is very close to the WIndows API. They share the same philosophy. X-Windows is completely backwards and very
difficult to design with.
It is interesting that in Unix the users question has an answer evry much like a PowerShell solution. We would pipe the data to a formatter which would generate a table (Format-Table) or a list (Format-List).
I no longer remember the commands to convert a data stream or data file into a report.
cat? grep? list? mtable?
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