(actually Windows NT derives from VMS at the kernel level and TOPS-10 by way of CP/M in the user environment)Nice. All modern computing comes from those roots.
Can we please have citations on the TOP-10 and CP/M bits for our own reference?(actually Windows NT derives from VMS at the kernel level and TOPS-10 by way of CP/M in the user environment)
I mean, you're not going to get a signed confession, because back in the day it was something DEC might've sued over. But "lead architect jumps ship for a competitor, takes a bunch of his people with him, and they turn out a product bearing notable design similarities as enumerated here" ain't rocket science.
(And in any case, it's certainly not architecturally a *nix derivative, no matter who they borrowed the TCP/IP stack from.)
It was mentioned in your second link.Huh, somehow I'd never heard that part. Makes sense.