OT: the real goal (was Re: If it is true, Please Help me.)

Mon Apr 9 11:05:00 GMT 2001

> Cygwin was a proof of concept. Now that we have the technology, we
> will be able to move forward with the VMS on Windows project. Of
> course, that is just a stepping stone towards the eventual goal of
> TOPS-10 on Windows. But you must crawl before you can fly.

 Why not Twenex first? Then we can run (most of) our -10 .EXEs 
under PA1050 (a worthy predecessor to Cygwin). And NT does have copy-
on-write (presumably because someone finally convinced Cutler that it 
was Cutler's idea in the 1st place). . .
 And who knows what next? Perhaps Multics and ITS?
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