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My recollection of the book is that many of the authors were fond of VMS, so they might appreciate NT.
by microtherion 3y ago
My recollection of the book is that many of the authors were fond of VMS, so they might appreciate NT.
- DonHopkins 3y agoNot at all: we all despise VMS, but are quite fond of ITS -- in fact ITS-LOVERS@AI was an alias for UNIX-HATERS@AI mailing list. Where AI is MIT-AI, a PDP-10 running ITS, whose 8 bit ARPANET address was 134. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080221
- microtherion 3y agoI stand corrected, then! It's been a while since I last ready the book, but ironically, it helped me learn some UNIX concepts that had eluded me before.
- hulitu 3y agoNT is to VMS, whas C++ is to C (i let you find the reference in the Unix haters handbook). /s
- hulitu 3y agoNT is a pale rendering of VMS.