[Info-vax] VSI licensing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Chris Townley]

On 17/08/2021 23:04, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <sfgsog$pr9$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> On 2021-08-16, David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Early Windows NT development was done on custom i860XR workstations before switching to custom MIPS workstations. The Intel codename for the i860XR was apparently "N-Ten", a possible source for the "NT" in "Windows NT".
>>>
>>
>> Increase each of the letters in VMS by one and see what you get.
>>
>> That's the other common source of the reported origin of WNT, ie: "Windows NT".
>>
>> Not the first time something like that has apparently been done.
>> Decrease each of the letters in IBM and see what you get.
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't do that. :-)
> 
> For what it's worth, Clarke has denied that.
> 

NT was promulgated as Windows New Technology


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Chris