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by stevefan1999 1971 days ago
> IBM + Microsoft. Expected: OS/2. Actual: MS NT kernel

Not entirely true, because in fact NT is heavily "inspired" by VMS, that Dave Cutler, the main architect of NT kernel, used to work in DEC as a technical fellow. This is also one of the reason DEC Alpha can run Windows NT out of the box, as it is quite similar to VMS in nature.