[Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

[Clark, Ian C]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au  
> > > Windows NT had no graphical interface when it was written as a 
> > > server operating system in C. Its creator Dave Cutler is the 
> > > equivalent of say, Linus Torvalds with Linux. Only grumpier
> 
> Sounds like my kind of guy.

Ever break down a door to get to a colleague who had stuffed up an OS
build? That's one of the apocryphal stories told about Cutler!

> >Cutler's work on VMS and Windows NT [*]
> ...
> >[*] you can right shift the characters from VMS -> WNT ;-)
> 
> And that's about the only shift it made. As an old VAX herder 
> I was disappointed to find that the command set in NT was 
> nowhere near as useful as that in VMS. Even more so when I 
> played with NT on an Alpha box - I expected the command set 
> to be VMS, since it was on a DEC machine.
> 
> I think I'm not busy enough today.

As a VAX fan, Jim, you might be interested in this:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.h
tml

Cheers,
Clarky


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