escaping DOS

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:18:41PM -0400, Ryan Powers thus spoke:
> > I guess. I seem to recall they were planning a Unix-like foundation.
> > Is that what PowerShell is supposed to be? It looks like it but seems to
> > have very few *nix commands.
> 
> Windows NT was supposed to be based partly on VMS, the story went. I
> remember which version it was, because I remember all the initials were one
> forward between VMS and WNT, and that association was made at the same
> time.

Many of the NT syscalls have, as I understand it, the same names, or very
similar ones, to the ones in VMS; that's because the chief architect of
NT was Dave Cutler... who designed VMS for DEC before moving to Microsoft.

Risking a trademark lawsuit from the Harvey family and Mutual Radio, here's
Windows Sysinternals guy Mark Russinovich, with the rest... of the story:

  http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-2000/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story

Cheers,
-- jra
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