"Imhotep" <> wrote in message
news:77edneB_b91Y9LreRVn-...
> Hairy One Kenobi wrote:
>
> > "Imhotep" <> wrote in message
> > news:EvGdnTH-...
> >> Hairy One Kenobi wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> > Erm.. you did, I think, when you had a go at 'em for not releasing
> >> > something that (presumably) failed testing.
> >>
> >> I think you assumed some things. You know what they say about
> > assuming...In
> >> stead try read the post literally. It was meant to warm people about a
> >> security hole that MS people are STILL vulnerable for.
> >
> > Nope. There was some self-satisfied FUD in there. Please go back and
> > reread your own posts...
>
> I think you are just wasting my time with your posts. I posted this news
> message to keep people up to date with security.
Didn't read that way. Still doesn't.
> >> Although Windows NT was designed with VMS as its model. The two are
very
> >> different.
> >
> > Oh yes. Strange that the designers happened to share the same names,
> > though? All of 'em?
>
> You are making a point about peoples names. I am making a point about the
> result of the end product. Which is more significant?
They were designed by the same (approximate) team, led by Dave Cutler. NT
3.0 came with a MOTIF interface (very DEC), only ran on a DEC CPU, and bore
a remarkable resemblence to the VMS successor, which happened to be
code-named NT (for number two thousand. Should have been NTT, in my view).
That was rejected by DEC. It came in two flavours - a "headless" server (no
GUI) and a Workstation version that could (in the original plan) provide a
GUI for any server being administered. In fact, just like DECwindows.
> Honestly, the last time I worked on a VAX it was in my junior year in
> college working at a small company in Framingham, Massachusetts USA. Then
I
> wrote code for the VMS TCP/IP stack. Since then, I have not been involved
> with VMS at all...
Point taken - although it takes a brave man to admit working with early
versions of UCX. I was one of the poor sods who had to use it... ;o)
H1K