On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:56:09 +1300, you wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:10:28PM +1300, Yuri de Groot wrote:
>
>> It wouldn't surprise me at all. I've read somewhere that many of the NT team 
>> at Microsoft came from the VMS team at Digital.
>
>I'm not sure about "many", but it's certainly a well-known fact that
>Dave Cutler (ex Digital, one of the designers of VMS) joined Microsoft
>in 1988 to begin work on what became Windows NT.
>
>Cheers,
>-mjg

Hadn't you noticed, using the next letters on from VMS gives... WNT

Yes, it was intentional!

Steve

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