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

[Arne Vajhøj]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

Switch to unicode !!

:-)

Arne