Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://liberdon.com/@kpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kpeace</span></a></span> Kinda.</p><p>If you’re talking about current <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> and its NT heritage, it was bought *engineering*, specifically <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> developers led by Dave Cutler.</p><p>Therefore, many elements of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a>’s design were inspired by DEC’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VMS</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/VAXELN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VAXELN</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RSX11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSX11</span></a>, and (unreleased) <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MICA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MICA</span></a> operating systems.</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> eventually paid off DEC and supported NT on the latter’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> architecture machines rather than face a lawsuit.</p>