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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.

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