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On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:56:53 -0700, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> It's interesting to note that Windows NT sort of descends from VMS.  I
> guess the end result was an unholy blend of VMS and CP/M.

	Pity they didn't take the "good parts" of VMS...

	Interprocess communication via "mailboxes" would have been nice...
More general than UNIX-style "pipes", as once the mailbox has been
created, multiple processes could connect for read or write in parallel.
Processes don't have to be blocked by mailbox I/O...

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