Re: [ALUG] OT, but maybe someone here knows

Wayne Stallwood wrote: [SNIP]

Then Microsoft got lucky by hiring a key VMS architect (I forget who)

Dave Cutler.

and therefore NT became more of a Microsoft interpretation of VMS rather than Microsoft's version of OS/2 (there is a strong rumour I heard once

It's a shame that it didn't. VMS was (and probably still is) a really good OS. I spent many years programming on VMS (and RSTS/E, and RT11, etc.) Cheers, Laurie. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com --------------------------------------------------------------------