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> > WinNT, on the other hand, has almost nothing in common with the
> > Win9x family. It was designed from the ground up as an
> > honest-to-God operating system, by people (NOT from Microsoft) who
> > had actually done that successfully in the past.
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> That's real news to me. But I should have surmised a stable
> operating system could not have really come from microsoft. Do you
> know where it came from?
Ever hear of a little company called Digital Equipment Corporation,
and their rather popular OS called VMS? :-)
There are lots of places to find out about this, if you know what to
search for. A quick web search of "Windows NT Cutler VMS" turned up
http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4494 as one
good source.
I even learned a new geek joke from the article -- if you increment
each letter in VMS, you get WNT -- Windows NT. :-)
Gary
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