On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
> One of its [VMS's] principal architects was Dave Cutler, who eventually
> left DEC for Microsoft, and was the architect for Windows NT.
I'm sure someone will bring this up, so it might as well be me: If you "add
one" to each letter in the string "VMS", you get "WNT". Rumor has it that
while it wasn't intentional, Dave Cutler was aware of it and approved.
ObLinux: The whole "X is this old, Y is this old" argument has never
impressed me very much. Nothing stays static that long in the computer
industry. Linux bears about as much resemblance to 1970 Unix as Windows NT
does to MS-DOS 1.0. Neither comparison is fair or meaningful. Compare things,
Linux and NT included, based on their strengths, not their ancestry.
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