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Think of Windows NT as the spiritual successor of VMS and it never really went away. Sort of like if Plan 9 had succeeded Unix.

• tombert 11mo ago
  Interesting, I hadn't thought of it that way; I didn't realize that NT shared ancestry with VMS.
  • voidfunc 11mo ago
    Dave Cutler
    • tombert 11mo ago
      Yeah, I looked it up after you mentioned it. Interesting stuff. I hate Windows but that's not so much the kernel but much more due to my hatred of the interface and Windows Update, so I don't know if the alternate universe where DEC reigned supreme would be better or worse.
• hulitu 11mo ago
  Only spiritual. The implementation is a disaster.