Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:01:41 -0800 From: Frank Warren <clovis@home.com> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Message-ID: <36BBF6E5.D5BDCA56@home.com> References: <057501be51a5$33b360c0$ed3ce4cf@danco.home>
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Dan O'Connor wrote: > >No, NT has nothing to do with OS/2. They gave OS/2 up as a bad job > >(presumably from a marketing point of view) and got a guy in from DEC > >who had been working with a successor to VMS (take the next letter for > >each of the initials and you get WNT :-). > > Kind of like 2001: A Space Odyssey -- HAL + 0x10101 = IBM :-) Actually, HAL - 0x010101 = IBM. VMS + 0x010101 = WNT As usual, Microsoft used the wrong operations to get their result, a matter which even now the Justice Department ponders in Federal Court :-) -- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer are purely coincidental. I'm not sure what my employer's views are, exactly, except that they improve on a day when the stock is doing well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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