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I have been well and truly NIXED!!

Early NT used the BSD TCPIP stack.

David Cutler and Team wanted NT to stay a CLI and nt boot direct to the GUI. Billy boy said NO!
 
So no definite confirmation. just speculation then.

If you tell a story often enough people will start to believe it. Like the Paul Revere story. Another chap made it to Concord. Revere and another chap got captured before they got there.
 
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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.)
 
commodorejohn said:
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.)
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It is something DEC sued over. The lawsuit is often repeated as the whole reason why Windows NT got ported to the Alpha, though I expect that port probably would have happened regardless given NT was also ported to (but never released for) the TURBOchannel MIPS DECstations along with PowerPC and supposed unreleased ports for Clipper, PA-RISC and an attempt at a SPARC port.

NT 3.1 didn't use a BSD TCP/IP stack, it used SpiderTCP. NT 3.50 switched to a new stack derived from BSD which I assume its still using today.
 
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