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

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In article <paul.nospam-8ACEF0.21504811112009 at pbook.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>In article <00A944EC.E5121054 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> 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.
>
>WINNT had HAL too - Hardware Abstraction Layer.

...and WEENDOZE has HALitosis!

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