[oclug] OT re M$ free info. meeting

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:31:02AM -0800, Ross Jordan wrote:

> > Didn't know NT had VMS in it.  Thought it was just OS/2 with
> > a GUI.
>
> WNT = V+1 M+1 S+1

Yes, apparently a common Usenet joke.  But try a Google search for
'nt vms os/2'.  All the articles discuss the similarities between
NT and VMS (of which there are apparently many), and one goes so
far as to say it's 'VMS re-implemented', but none suggest it
actually came from VMS.

Most declare it as OS/2 version 3.0 with the Windows GUI placed on top
and rebranded as Windows NT.  At least one or two books I've read also
concur with this.

Google as a determiner of truth is never a fully reliable method, but
in this case, it seems to concur with what I already thought I knew.
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