Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Paul Makepeace]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:07:16PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the 
> letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM.

If you take the letters VMS and shift 'em one, you get WNT, a popular
Redmond OS one of whose lead architects was a VMS vet.

More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology
which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit
like recording on DAT tapes.

P

> Dave...