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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!dkf From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Date: 10 Jul 1993 08:10:44 GMT Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry Lines: 27 Message-ID: <21lti4INNspl@network.ucsd.edu> References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu In article <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> qfh1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Quazi Haque) writes: >As far as it being Unix... I don't think so... considering the design >team's past involvement with DEC, I'd be more inclined to say NT is VMS :) . ^^^^^^^^^ Funny, I ran in to a few people at a bar here outside of UCSD. They were talking about NT and being from a UC I, I had to mention BSD and so forth... Well, they stick behind NT, but mentioned a "joke" that I thought people might like to here: Take VMS and add 1 letter from each letter in the name. What do you get??? WNT (Windows NT) 8-) >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Quazi F. Haque | "The universe is my god, and it loves me no less than > qfh1@cornell.edu | all the galaxies combined and no more than an atom." >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David Knight French Email Addresses: Phone: UCSD - Dept of Chemistry INTERNET: dkfrench@ucsd.edu (voice/fax) 9500 Gilman Drive UUCP: ucsd!dkfrench (619)534-4193 / San Diego, CA 92093-0314 BITNET: dkfrench@ucsd.bitnet (619)534-6255