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To: Dave who wrote (64324)	1/21/2002 1:06:58 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

HAL:IBM::VMS:WNT Geeks are fond of that kind of thing. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Dave who wrote (64324)	1/21/2002 1:52:47 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT did hire some ex-VMS designers from DEC when it set out to build Windows NT, but to my knowledge there is no VMS code per se in any MSFT product.

To: Dave who wrote (64324)	1/22/2002 2:01:44 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dave - you are full of crap about NT / VMS and obviously know nothing of the architecture of either system. NT derives some of its concepts from a much later prototype OS Cutler developed at DEC called MICA, which was designed to support the 64 bit PRISM architecture, a precursor in some ways to the Alpha architecture. All you need to do is look at the structure of VMS and NT to see that they are not particularly similar. The architectural documentation for both systems is readily available. Cutler was also the architect of RSX-11M, so NT is really his 4th major OS development. While there are similarities of concept - much as there are similarities of concept in the various buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright - each of those 4 operating systems started with different and unique design constraints and basic architectures.