From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-20 12:25:23 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 18 hours and 14 minutes ago)
> However, this is just wrong.  NT was Unicode from the beginning, even
> at the kernel level.

You're right. My fault. MSDN says NT was Unicode from the beginning.

--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:56 AM -0400 Robert William Fuller 
<hydrologiccycle <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Eris Discordia wrote:
>> MS-DOS never had Unicode support. Neither did any Windows version up to
>> 3.1, NT 3.5, and 95. NT 4 introduced it into the Microsoft sphere in
>> 1996. In 5-6 years--from 1996 to 2001--Windows surpassed Plan 9 in
>> Unicode handling, in all practical aspects.
>
> I'm pretty far from being either a Plan 9, or much less, a Windows
> apologist.  However, this is just wrong.  NT was Unicode from the
> beginning, even at the kernel level.  Ask any poor sod who had to work on
> the NT kernel back then.
>