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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.172729.3560@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- References: <Bz0vGv.38x@eis.calstate.edu> <J8DNVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec13.102359.27514@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:27:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.102359.27514@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung) writes:
- >Some facts to clear up some misconceptions:
- >
- >1. NT now stands for "New Technology". It did not originally
- > stand for "New Technology", but what it used to stand for
- > had nothing to do with VMS-. Dave Cutler, the software
- > "father" of VMS and DEC (as well as lesser-known projects),
- > is the chief architect for NT.
-
- And for those wondering just what's New about the Technology in NT,
- here's Cutler himself, answering the question himself:
-
- "If you've seen the insides of DOS, you'll know why
- NT is 'New Technology'"
-
- -- paul
- --
- hybrid rather than pure; compromising rather than clean; | Militant Agnostic
- distorted rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than| I Don't Know
- articulated; both-and rather than either-or; the difficult | and You Don't
- unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion. | Know Either
-