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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!hopper!mike From: mike@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Michael Chapman) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <C9yHyF.7t3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <21lti4INNspl@network.ucsd.edu> <21mlqm$egj@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 16:03:51 GMT Lines: 36 In article <21mlqm$egj@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Acquiescence) writes: >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? > > What did the UNIX programmer say to the Windows NT programmer? "Burger, fries, large coke, please." (old ada joke. :)) -- Mike Chapman mike@hopper.acs.virginia.edu uunet!virginia!doxy!mike Custom UNIX software and networking solutions. All statements contained herein might be accurate, but may also be carefully constructed lies designed to induce an angry response.