Not surprisingly, WNT looked a lot like VMS (just add one to each of the letters). After all, the same person was the chief architect of both of them. When a talented designer writes a 32-bit operating system and a few years later writes another 32-bit operating system, it is possible they might have some serious resemblances. I don't know if any code is the same. For details, see an article by Mark Russinovich. When DEC learned about WNT, they had some discussions with Microsoft and something in excess of 60ドル million was transferred from Redmond to Maynard to solve the problem. The case never went to court (probably because Microsoft wanted to get WNT out the door quickly and not get bogged down in years of litigation, even if they thought they would win). A few years later, DEC sued Intel for allegedly violating DEC's patents on the Alpha chip, although the case was settled out of court. By 1990, however, it was clear to everyone that the minicomputer era was over, despite the remark by DEC's president, Ken Olsen, "Nobody needs a computer in their [sic] house." By the mid 1990s, DEC may have been grasping at straws, threatening everyone in sight, just to survive. It didn't work and in 1998 DEC was bought by Compaq, which in turn was bought by Hewlett-Packard, which now owns the rights to VMS."
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A Brief History of Windows NT/2000/XP
Not surprisingly, WNT looked a lot like VMS (just add one to each of the letters). After all, the same person was the chief architect of both of them. When a talented designer writes a 32-bit operating system and a few years later writes another 32-bit operating system, it is possible they might have some serious resemblances. I don't know if any code is the same. For details, see an article by Mark Russinovich. When DEC learned about WNT, they had some discussions with Microsoft and something in excess of 60ドル million was transferred from Redmond to Maynard to solve the problem. The case never went to court (probably because Microsoft wanted to get WNT out the door quickly and not get bogged down in years of litigation, even if they thought they would win). A few years later, DEC sued Intel for allegedly violating DEC's patents on the Alpha chip, although the case was settled out of court. By 1990, however, it was clear to everyone that the minicomputer era was over, despite the remark by DEC's president, Ken Olsen, "Nobody needs a computer in their [sic] house." By the mid 1990s, DEC may have been grasping at straws, threatening everyone in sight, just to survive. It didn't work and in 1998 DEC was bought by Compaq, which in turn was bought by Hewlett-Packard, which now owns the rights to VMS."
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