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Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)

Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)

Posted Apr 26, 2003 3:24 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) by emkey
Parent article: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)

On a related note, how old is VMS?

25 years old according to this VMS history page:

http://www.levitte.org/~ava/vms_hist.htmlx

Yeah, what about it Steve? Perhaps MSFT denies that NT is largely based on VMS (and OS/2, with bits of DOS thrown in).


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Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)

Posted May 3, 2003 8:40 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

In around 1993, this was almost the subject of legal action by DEC. It was resolved by a favourable partnership agreement worth a great deal of money for DEC.

Rich.

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