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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>>> Add one letter to
VMS and you get ..... WNT!</FONT> </DIV>
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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> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>>bredroll</FONT> </P>
<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>At one stage, a lot of the computing community were all for NT
for this reason. I was enthusiastic myself...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>A transition from familiar VMS to NT was on the
cards for many big academic/scientific computing centres,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>not bothering with that Unix stuff which was for
comp. sci. types.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>And as you say, NT would run on Intel, Alpha and
MIPS.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Methinks Microsoft wasn't wise to drop
Alpha/MIPS.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>