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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>From: Ian Norton [<A HREF="mailto:bredroll@darkspace.org.uk">mailto:bredroll@darkspace.org.uk</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Sent: 03 June 2003 12:13</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>To: gllug@linux.co.uk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>> > If memory serves (which it may well not) alot of the first versions of the NT</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> > kernels were largly written by a former developer of one of the early BSD</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> > projects, some may feel that bits of old nt are kind of like bits of unices but</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> I won't claim that you are wrong - I didn't know this.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> But Windows NT was developed by Dave Cutler, who was hired from DEC.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> Add one letter to VMS and you get ..... WNT!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>yep, my brain says that i was confused before, must have some list inodes in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>here somewhere</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>bredroll</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>At the time DEC (or Digital as they had become by then) were very much onside as MS made a big deal out of the fact NT supported Alpha. So they paraded Dave Cutler about.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>If memory serves I think the first NT prototype wasn't even on a ia32 but on some chip which would have been more familiar in a VAX.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Adrian</FONT>
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