On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:07:16PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the > letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM. If you take the letters VMS and shift 'em one, you get WNT, a popular Redmond OS one of whose lead architects was a VMS vet. More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit like recording on DAT tapes. P > Dave...
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