On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:33:27 EST, Glenn_Everhart@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > There were rumors that the NT kernel was originally called Mica at DEC > and that the code was in fact brought bodily to Microsoft, having > been originally designed to be a VMS followon. If that is true you could > say that the security design was in fact that of VMS V1, which dates The only problem with that theory is that VMS *had* a security design, and there isn't one in NT. The only design overlap there is that Microsoft got some of the VMS design team to come on board for Win/NT. NT got stuck with having to be backward-combatable with Win 3.1, and you can fill in the blanks from there....
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