[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

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In article <KD6EMXmHr9Cj at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <rqrgf5l0duc5n8247ofodn728nd2gbbld4 at 4ax.com>, jls <notvalid at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> My recollection from that time period is reading a few articles
>> written in mags from erstwhile VMS Internals experts that NT had VMS
>> written all over it.
>> 
>> It may not be so true today, but the earlier versions, IIRC, were so
>> VMS-ish internally that even some of the code was copied verbatim
>> (i.e., including comments with the initials of VMS engineers).
>
>   I recall statments from Culter that VMS -> WNT naming similar to
>   IBM -> HAL was intentional.  But then I also recall statements that 

HAL was a step up from IBM.  WNT was a step down from VMS.  In fact,
ZQW seems a more appropriate.  Not really but I ran out of alphabet.

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