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From: shephard@fraser.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard)
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <21lti4INNspl@network.ucsd.edu> <CA0uI6.2Er@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 01:05:28 GMT
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peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <21lti4INNspl@network.ucsd.edu> dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French) writes:
>> 	Take VMS and add 1 letter from each letter in the name.
>> 	What do you get???

>> 	WNT (Windows NT) 8-)

I believe Helen Custer states that Dvorak was the first to notice
that.

>Someone pointed this out to Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect), who reportedly
>replied "It took you this long to figure that out?"
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   Hefur pu fadmad ulfinn i dag?
>  'U`    
>"Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."
-- 
| Gordon Harry Shephard, shephard@sfu.ca,(bus)291-3930, (res)293-1835 
| Distributed Computing Support Group, Computing Science Student
| In No Way am I speaking for my Employers or Simon Fraser University.