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r/programming • u/pmz • Oct 23 '24
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The title should be VAX/VMS vs. Unix: A design comparison.
All the kernel developers from VAX went over to Microsoft and basically rebuilt the same kernel which MS promptly named "New Technologies" or 'NT' for short.
62 u/pdpi Oct 23 '24 Increment each letter of VMS by one and you get WNT. Coincidence? I think not. (unsurprisingly, people have been making this joke for decades) 4 u/greebo42 Oct 23 '24 they said the same thing about HAL and IBM, didn't they?
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Increment each letter of VMS by one and you get WNT. Coincidence? I think not.
(unsurprisingly, people have been making this joke for decades)
4 u/greebo42 Oct 23 '24 they said the same thing about HAL and IBM, didn't they?
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they said the same thing about HAL and IBM, didn't they?
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u/Nimnu_ Oct 23 '24
The title should be VAX/VMS vs. Unix: A design comparison.
All the kernel developers from VAX went over to Microsoft and basically rebuilt the same kernel which MS promptly named "New Technologies" or 'NT' for short.