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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00A944EC.E5121054 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
> 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.

   Must be a stack. In ASCII  'H'-- 'A'-- 'L'-- == I B M.  
   'V'++ 'M'++ 'S'++ = 'W' 'N' 'T'.

   Maybe Culter knew he was moving lower on the stack.