> Duane Percox said that Lew Platt reported
> >"in the end there will be two operating systems - UNIX and Windows NT"
> More than a few years back, a then-young HP Professional reported in an
> article from its editorial director there would be but three survivors in
> the operating system "wars." You'd be left with MVS for your mainframes,
> VMS for your DEC systems and Unix for all else. Not surprisingly, the
> publishing company printing those words had publications covering all three
> of those environments. Windows NT was but a gleam in David Cutler's eye at
> Digital at the time. Given the rise of their new ENT, an NT mag at that
> publishing company, I wonder if they might like to revise their
> prediction...
 
He wasn't that far off. NT is basically VMS on a PC. (Albeit with cute GUI
with pink frills).
 
-Dan