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Article #1076Re: Mach vs. NT?
From: Paul Barton-Davis
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:27
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:27
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In article <1992Dec13.102359.27514@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung) writes: >Some facts to clear up some misconceptions: > >1. NT now stands for "New Technology". It did not originally > stand for "New Technology", but what it used to stand for > had nothing to do with VMS-. Dave Cutler, the software > "father" of VMS and DEC (as well as lesser-known projects), > is the chief architect for NT. And for those wondering just what's New about the Technology in NT, here's Cutler himself, answering the question himself: "If you've seen the insides of DOS, you'll know why NT is 'New Technology'" -- paul -- hybrid rather than pure; compromising rather than clean; | Militant Agnostic distorted rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than| I Don't Know articulated; both-and rather than either-or; the difficult | and You Don't unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion. | Know Either
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Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!pauld From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT? Message-ID: <1992Dec14.172729.3560@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Precipitating Pendulums Postal Party Poopers References: <Bz0vGv.38x@eis.calstate.edu> <J8DNVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec13.102359.27514@microsoft.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:27:29 GMT Lines: 21