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Re: Windows NT == VMS ? (was: Lew Platt says)
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Bill Lancaster <[log in to unmask]>
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Bill Lancaster <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:47:01 -0700
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Goetz and Wirt wrote:
>
>>Mmhhmm. Ever since I read 2001-Odyssey, and understood
>>the "HAL" name for the ship's computer, I try the same
>>with other TLAs.
>
>>WNT = VMS++ ?
>
>I think that is enormously clever (or obtuse, or very strange) of you to
>note, Goetz -- and I find it very funny, especially given the context of the
>preceeding notes saying basically the same thing in far more prosaic prose. I
>wish that I had thought of it myself.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
You probably remember that HAL is IBM, but one letter backwards in the alphabet.
 
Did you notice that VMS is WNT but one letter backwards????
 
I just saw it myself...
 
Bill
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