CompuServe Messages

Rob, Stop… STOP! You've got me foaming at the mouth with the talk of all the potential MIPS! I'm really afraid the gummint will ruin our economy, so I hope the goodies come along before it happens. I've heard of Dave Cutler, but haven't followed him closely. I read where the chief VMS designer went to Microsoft, but didn't remember it was Dave. I forget when he got to Redmond, but I thought it was well after OS/2 was defined. Then Microsoft got the development of OS/3 or Portable OS/2, which is what I thought was renamed to Windows NT. I thought Dave came in around the time the OS was renamed to NT, but my chronology could be way off. I use applications running on VMS every day at work, and have used DCL a little. A full library on that OS uses up a good sized wall of bookcases. I saw a demo of NT at a Microsoft symposium in Dallas a while ago and recognized some of the features you'd expect to see in a grown-up operating system. I don't even *know*, but I get the feeling that Windows 4 is a subset of NT that may not have some of the manegement functions in it. Let me know if you settle on an external cabinet. Finding one from a Texas supplier will give me the opportunity to pay state tax! <g> Dave McKeen