Re: NEWSWire/400

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>John Carr wrote:
 
>> RE:     RE: NEWSWire/400  05.07.97
>> 
>> How about old DEC engineers going to work for Microsoft and comming up
>> with  VMS - > WNT  ? (Win NT)
 
>Funny, you mention this.  DEC did not think it was funny, they were
>going to sue Microsoft who then settled with them.  Go figure.
 
>Thank You.
>Regards
>Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net

I think in the late 80's a lot of Dec Engineers/Programmers  jumped ship/were
woo-ed  to Microsoft
and since, when ever one  writes a major piece of code / system,   and If you
write anything new 
you tend to write what you know,  only better(hopefully).     I think that the
VMS -> WNT is not to far off.   
Also, I think that Microsoft's web pages for a long time(maybe still?)  were
running VMS on a Dec Alpha because of security , etc..........  But I'm probably
wrong as usual.

John Carr
EdgeTech



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