RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:35:56 -0500
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And the urban legend (a la Soltis) is, add 1 letter to VMS and you get WNT (Windows NT). Just like HAL and IBM, eh?

At 12:46 AM 6/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
-snip-

And IIRC, didn't the chief architect for WindowsNT (David someone ?), come from DEC with his head full of the VAX operating system (VMS) ideas ?

--phil

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