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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Even VMS seems to have it (although if git is ever ported to VMS, I'll 
> just have to shoot myself. I used VMS in -88, and the scars are _still_ 
> fresh).
> 

Yeah, well, WinNT is basically the successor to VMS.  (I have heard from 
several ex-DECers that WNT was done on top of a stolen copy of what was 
supposed-to-have-been the successor to VMS.)

	-hpa