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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:09:38 -0400
From: Dave Tweed <dtweed AT acm DOT org>
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fernande AT internet1 DOT net wrote:
> 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?

Some of the people who developed VMS at DEC subsequently moved
to Microsoft to develop NT. Many of the internal concepts are
similar between the two systems.

-- Dave Tweed