Sorry Gertsy but POSIX compliance in the WinNT CLI does not equal "based on Unix".
I rather like it especially in Excel, I find now that i'm used to it I can find what I want orders of magnitude quicker than before. (PS, couldnt care less about touch, Im talking on real computers)
My association wasn't POSIX or I might have quoted Powershell as well.
It was the direct link from NT to Digital VMS that came from RSX-11, Which came from PDP-11, and yes you may have guessed it, early versions of Unix TSS and C. UNICS Timeshare, or UNIX TSS being the source for all Unix variants.
Gasps of disbelief I hear. The sound of keyboards clicking searching in google, could it be true? Suggest you search with Bing if u want real answers..
Linux "appeared" from a binary kernel copy of Minux in the late 80's (From nowhere some zealots would have us believe) around the same time that binary reverse engineering was very popular. (Arrrgh me hearties!!!)
If you were to actually believe the "story" on the origins of the Linux and to some extent the Minux kernel, that would mean that the origins of Windows (of the NT variety ie the current arm) come from the actual origins of Unix whereas Linux does not. Think about that for a moment.
Though I'm pretty sure you could draw a direct line from Minux to either BSD or Unix32 both university popular in the mid to late 80s. Perhaps those university creators should admit to their "artistry" to re-establish the line and missing link.
PS: Real computers have touch too. Typed on my Dell XPS12 I7 SSD with Win 8 and Touch.
@Duce. My experience is the same. Even old CS 1.5 works.