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Ben,

VMS as in Digital, or is VMS many, like Unix is?  The only time I have
ever heard of VMS is from Digital.  How would Microsoft base NT on
something from Digital?

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
> 
> > Bill Gates himself claims NT is UNIX
> Vaguely credible, sort of.  NT is based on the VMS architecture and contains
> some DOS-like bits (DOS borrowing from QDOS from CP/M from UNIX), and VMS
> and UNIX are sort of similar in terms of security model, AFAICT (having not
> worked with VMS myself, I'm going on secondhand quotes here).