i still believe it was an attempted immitation of VMS reguardless of who created VMS... even the name was a kind of in "Joke" like HAL was to IBM. the letters preceding IBM are HAL... WNT are the letters following VMS. coincidence??? 8^)
But again, NT doesn't have 96 nodes in a [shared-everything] cluster and 800KM between nodes.
I wake up every morning and thank God that I don't support Windows systems for a living.
Again, guys, there's a hobbyist program- join ENCOMPASS (associate memberships are free), grab some hardware off of eBay, get hobbyist licenses (also free) and surf without worrying about viruses.