[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

Ross Lonstein ross-sunhelp at lonsteins.com
Tue Sep 14 11:55:47 CDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Dan Duncan wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > That does not mean that there are not parts of other operating systems in
> > NT, for example OS/2 did not have TCP/IP support. M/S lifted the BSD
> > TCP/IP stack for NT, IBM used a different one for their OS/2.
> 
> Internally, NT borrowed heavily from VMS.

That would probably be largely because Dave Cutler and others formerly
from DEC were hired to work on it.

- Ross



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