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

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Sep 14 17:03:20 CDT 2004


Tue, 14 Sep 2004 @ 12:17 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo said:

> 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.
> 
> too bad they didn't borrow the reliability part...

I think they did, but M$ marketing took over and the rest is history.

As originally detailed, NT should have been OK.

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