Dave Cutler, the head of the NT project came from DEC where he did VMS. Big lawsuit when MS hired him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

Yeah that's what I read in Showstoppers too.

WNT = V + 1, M + 1, S + 1

"Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named 'N-Ten)', a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"

-- Mark Lucovsky

Distinguished Engineer, Windows Server Architect

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042038/http://www.winsup...

So NT from VMS is not true as pointed out above. However a funning one that is suppose to be true is from the 2001 Space Odyssey series. The name of the insane AI was H.A.L.

H>I

A>B

L>M

I found surprising that IBM's CMS had commands like "DIR" and "TYPE".