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Re: file location

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: file location
Date 2015-02-03 12:21 +0000
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <maqeg7$tfm$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <majpvg$1r1$1@speranza.aioe.org> <mak7sj$ci8$1@dont-email.me> <map8pq$mbj$1@dont-email.me> <map9ms$o16$1@dont-email.me> <wwvh9v38iy2.fsf@l1AntVDjLrnP7Td3DQJ8ynzIq3lJMueXf87AxnpFoA.invalid>

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On 03/02/15 09:04, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>> His name is Dave Cutler, yes, and he more or less copied over the VMS
>> kernel code into the NT kernel, but simply renamed the functions and
>> the variables.  That's why DEC fired him on the spot and sued
>> Microsoft, but Gates settled the matter out of court by paying DEC a
>> large sum of money and conceding to supporting DEC's Alpha processor
>> in NT.
>
> As far as I can tell this (intrinsically rather unlikely) claim is
> something that ‘Aragorn’ has simply made up.
>
For once Richard, I am going to say you have let emotion get in the way 
of accuracy and research.

It takes a very small amount of googling to come up with several 
versions of this story, of which this is one:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story

Essentially NT was most of what the next version of VMS was going to be.

""Why the Fastest Chip Didn't Win" (Business Week, April 28, 1997) 
states that when Digital engineers noticed the similarities between VMS 
and NT, they brought their observations to senior management. Rather 
than suing, Digital cut a deal with Microsoft. In the summer of 1995, 
Digital announced Affinity for OpenVMS, a program that required 
Microsoft to help train Digital NT technicians, help promote NT and 
Open-VMS as two pieces of a three-tiered client/server networking 
solution, and promise to maintain NT support for the Alpha processor. 
Microsoft also paid Digital between 65 million and 100 million dollars."

-- 
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the 
rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. – Erwin Knoll

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  Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 00:08 +0000
  Re: file location Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-31 00:30 +0000
    Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 00:51 +0000
      Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-01-31 09:03 +0000
        Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 18:14 +0000
          Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-01-31 19:00 -0500
            Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-01 05:14 +0000
  Re: file location Zaphod Beeblebrox <none@none.org> - 2015-01-30 20:06 -0600
    Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-01-31 18:54 -0500
      Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-01 04:52 +0100
        Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 15:50 -0500
          Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-02 22:05 +0100
          Re: file location Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-02 22:29 +0000
            Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 18:05 -0500
        Re: file location Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-02-03 01:38 +0000
          Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 02:54 +0100
            Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 09:04 +0000
              Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 11:27 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 10:56 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 18:39 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-04 01:51 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-04 09:19 +0000
              Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 12:21 +0000
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 12:57 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-03 16:58 +0000
                Re: file location John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-02-03 11:24 -0600
                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 18:21 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 01:11 +0000
                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-04 10:24 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 23:19 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-05 00:34 +0100
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 01:08 +0000
                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 17:20 +0000
            Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-03 14:47 -0500
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