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Little known factoid: When Cutler came to MS, and worked on NT, he added a cool VMS easter egg in the name WinNT: W --> -1 --> V N --> -1 --> M T --> -1 -->
by phodo 11y ago
Little known factoid:
When Cutler came to MS, and worked on NT, he added a cool VMS easter egg in the name WinNT:
W --> -1 --> V
N --> -1 --> M
T --> -1 --> S
VMS is/was a great OS. I was fortunate enough to work on it on a satellite communication system straight out of college. I recall adding the the TCP/IP drivers and achieving connectivity across large Wide Area Networks and setting up one of the first wireless ISDN video conference systems, in this case between former east and west berlin and moscow. There were many similar projects around the world and VMS was a lot of fun/stable to work with.
- EvanAnderson 11y agoThe Wikipedia article for Windows NT references this, but also references a statement from Mark Lucovsky stating that the original target for NT, the i860 processor, was codenamed "N-Ten" and that the "NT" name came from the target processor. It would mildly be interesting to get confirmation of the real source.