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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Acquiescence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
Date: 10 Jul 1993 15:04:54 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <21lti4INNspl@network.ucsd.edu> dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French) writes:
>
>In article <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> qfh1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Quazi Haque) writes:
>>As far as it being Unix... I don't think so... considering the design
>>team's past involvement with DEC, I'd be more inclined to say NT is VMS :) .
> ^^^^^^^^^
>Funny, I ran in to a few people at a bar here outside of UCSD. They were
>talking about NT and being from a UC I, I had to mention BSD and so forth...
>Well, they stick behind NT, but mentioned a "joke" that I thought people
>might like to here:
>
> Take VMS and add 1 letter from each letter in the name.
> What do you get???
>
> WNT (Windows NT) 8-)
I wonder, anyone want to make a prediction on how long it'll
be before we see less than two posts of this same joke per week?
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