From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:54:14 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 18d69360-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 geoff@collyer.net wrote: > Microsoft, last I heard. I believe he contributed some of Mach into > NT. I don't think that's it. 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. I knew a fellow who had done VMS source hackery at DEC for many years, and he said his knowledge of VMS innards made beating on NT very easy ... "it's 100% bug compatible". ron