Interesting.<p>I worked with VMS back in the v.late 1980&#x27;s - it was quite lovely, but that feeling was based on experiences with C64, CP&#x2F;M and MS-DOS.<p>Somewhere in the back room I still have two Multias, which you mention, and were famous for running Microsoft NT (albeit briefly).<p>Are you confident of the NT back-story?  My understanding (and I ack that much of this is heresay thwarted by time) was that MS had long since planned their IBM-non-friendly exit from the OS&#x2F;2 co-venture (certainly pre-dating Dave Cutler&#x27;s hiring).  The timing doesn&#x27;t seem to match up - though I concede my memory is a bit fuzzy, plus things moved at a different pace back then.