Was the VMS mastermind a university graduate?

[Anton]

The idea is that a university graduate would have left his trace in immatriculation or graduation lists, of which some are preserved. Which opens some, albeit narrow, opportunities for brute force attacks on provenance.

For example, graduation lists of the Padua university are preserved. I just read yesterday that there were more foreigners from beyond the Alps (ultramontane) than Italians (intramontane) there.

An optimistic case would be if something in the VMS style could suggest the "imprint" of a particular university, or at least a particular country where the person was educated.