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In article <1993Jan1.015931.8891@synergy.encinitas.ca.us> clark@synergy.encinitas.ca.us (John Clark) writes:
>In article <5ceb4a29.cb12@dabo.citi.umich.edu> Jim.Rees@umich.edu writes:
>+>In article <J8DNVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com>, wjg@bluemoon.use.com (william grimm) writes:
>+>
>+>  And, I believe MS hired the 
>+>  developer of Mach- not sure about this, though.
>+>
>+>I don't know if you really want to say that Rashid is "the" developer of
>+>Mach.  Certainly many other people worked on it too.  But my understanding
>+>is that he is head of the research lab at Microsoft and had little to do
>+>with Windows NT.
>
>For a comparison, Microsoft has had a 'un*x' source license since V7, but DOS
>never has even come close, either externally or internally. So the fact
>that a major 'mach' contributor is on staff probably bears little significance
>to eventual products. (who knows, there may be a chorus line in the offing..)


Shhhssss - we're trying to keep this secret, actually the next version of windows
will be called ChorWindows, which we have internally named STNM (same
technology new name). In addition, in an attempt to take the vapour out
of Cairo we are negotiating to sell them the rights to our object oriented
operating system (COOL) ..... watch this space.


Rodger

rodge@chorus.com

Just for those who missed the smiley, this article begins and ends with
a big :-) - Chorus and MicroSoft have never even heard of each other and