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rbanffy
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The GNU/Hurd architecture, nifty features, and lat...
It's really nice to see an operating system that's based on some new ideas. I always say it's an embarrassment that the two most popular OSs today are a clone of Unix and the bastard child of VMS.
abraham_s
on Sept 4, 2013
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I wonder what percentage of people will get the VMS reference.
smcnally
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"Bastard child" as IBM is the father to the unwed MSFT?
rbanffy
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That would be MVS.
abraham_s
on Sept 5, 2013
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The project leader of VMS, Dave Cutler went to MicroSoft and led the development of Windows NT. That is what I think the VMS reference is.
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