On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:53:08PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote: > The only Unix derived OS I was never too impressed > with was WindowsNT... go figure.
Maybe because its not Unix derived. Its ancestor was VMS, a competitor to unix put out by Digital, and popular in the 1980s. This can be seen in the name W(indows)NT, which is "one step after VMS" (in the alphabetic sense, a play on Stanley Kubrik's HAL, being one step ahead of IBM. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
