Well, that certainly explains the *other* reason I hated NT.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:53:08PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote: > > The only Unix derived OS I was never too impressed > > with was WindowsNT... go figure. > > Maybe because its not Unix derived. Its ancestor was VMS, a competitor > to unix put out by Digital, and popular in the 1980s. > > This can be seen in the name W(indows)NT, which is "one step after VMS" (in > the alphabetic sense, a play on Stanley Kubrik's HAL, being one step > ahead of IBM. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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