[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[Adrian McMenamin]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Norton [mailto:bredroll at darkspace.org.uk]
>Sent: 03 June 2003 12:13
>To: gllug at linux.co.uk
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight


>> > If memory serves (which it may well not) alot of the first versions of
the NT
>> > kernels were largly written by a former developer of one of the early
BSD
>> > projects, some may feel that bits of old nt are kind of like bits of
unices but
>> 
>> I won't claim that you are wrong - I didn't know this.
>> 
>> But Windows NT was developed by Dave Cutler, who was hired from DEC.
>> Add one letter to VMS and you get ..... WNT!

>yep, my brain says that i was confused before, must have some list inodes
in
>here somewhere

>bredroll

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.

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.

Adrian

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