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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
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> I've been told many times that NT was the post-VMS OS that was
> developed at DEC by Cutler et. al. and taken en masse to MS,
> rumor has it that a lot of source went too.

More-detailed versions of the rumor (but no citation
for the lawsuit, which should exist if it really happened,
right?):

http://www.winntmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/4652/4652.html
http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=7153
http://www.summitstrat.com/website/web2deliv.nsf/LOOKUP3/40506B455860E8748525657C0080D48C

Dave Eckhardt