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To: Shawn M. Downey who wrote (64355)	1/22/2002 10:38:50 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Shawn - thanks for an excellent link, I was working from memory which at my age is always dangerous. I worked as a contractor to IBM in the mid-80s on several OS/2 driver level programs, then later as a contractor for the OS/2 NG (or NT) program doing disk drivers and some network stuff. I had done a great deal of development on PDP-11 and VAX, and I would bet that my designs showed a lot of the heritage of the original RSX and VMS thinking. None the less, I had no access to original VMS code, nor was my work a "rewrite" of existing modules, except from a functional standpoint. I think that the "urban legend" around the NT / VMS connection is clouding the view of many otherwise savvy people. I have had a number of ex-DEC people who ought to know better say the same things. So I guess I am saying that despite the resemblance, the NT code was similar because of the heritage and experience of the development team, not the OS architecture. A similar example is a friend of mine - everyone remarks on the close family resemblance between him and his oldest son, "the apple doesn't drop far from the tree" etc. But the son is adopted... perception is a funny thing, it can be greatly affected by one's assumptions.