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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by bogomipz on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:48PM (#19574423)
I'm curious what's the connection between VMS and Windows NT?
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by Johnny555 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:55PM (#19574498)
I'm curious what's the connection between VMS and Windows NT?

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by lasereyes136 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:19PM (#19576102)
Read Showstopper it is about the making of Windows NT. It talks about the people that moved for Microsoft from DEC.

https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generat...

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by Anarch157a on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:04PM (#19574608)
The creator of the NT kernel (Dave CUtler) also created VMS while working at DEC. Because of this, NT have a lot in common with VMS.
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by bogomipz on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:45PM (#19578576)
Interesting I never knew this. The links above all look like good reads. Cheers.
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by seba_dos1 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:33PM (#19574947)
VMS++ == WNT ;)
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by EpicEng on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:04PM (#19575278)
That returns false and now you have to track down a bug because you decided to be clever :D
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by qntty on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:37PM (#19575001)
++VMS == WNT
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by bregma on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:14PM (#19576036)
WinNT = ++VMS
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by benj111 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:08PM (#19576562)
WinNT = ++*(VMS)
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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by ch_123 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:30PM (#19575596)
Obligitory reminder that the NT name predates Cutler at MS (it was originally called OS/2 NT)

EDIT: fix typo

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by justinclift on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:00PM (#19579278)
VMS > WNT

:)

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by bitwize on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#19574443)
Dave Cutler.
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