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Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by mek6800d2 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @08:34PM (#32601889)
Microsoft hired the main architect of VMS, Dave Cutler, away from DEC to design Windows NT. (VMS++ = WNT)
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Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by Maursault on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:43PM (#32602779)
You've got it backwards. Digital cancelled Cutler's pet project and he shopped himself, and Digital's IP, to Microsoft. VMS and NT have a lot of similarities, but NT is not VMS, though they have a common ancestor: MICA = NT

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA

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