[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <aa4f3527-b538-44e8-9b2a-1caa95047f89 at k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>On Dec 25, 9:18=A0am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> From one of my online buddies:
>>
>> Rob Short: Operating System Evolution
>> Rob Short is an operating system pioneer. He helped Microsoft
>> transition from the 1980s with DOS and 16 bit windows into the 32 bit
>> world with Windows NT in the 1990s. More recently, Rob was part of the
>> team that further enhanced windows to take advantage of the 64 bit
>> processors of the new millennium. Today, he is the Vice President
>> overseeing development of windows kernel and virtualization...
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/3c021020-5765-4c0a-a7b1-...
>>
>> This 55 minute video talks about PDP-11/05, VAX-11/780, and VMS
>>
>> Neil Rieck
>> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
>> Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
>
>This Microsoft video:
>http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/3c021020-5765-4c0a-a7b1-d6f0c9=
>0c5f1b
>
>Or this URL which shouldn't wrap:
>http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/
>3c021020-5765-4c0a-a7b1-d6f0c90c5f1b
>
>Mentions PDP-11/05, VAX-11/780, and VMS.
>
>It also mentions uVAX, RISC, PRISM, Dave Cutler, how DEC West
>(Seattle) ended up at Microsoft. How Decies influenced Microsoft. How
>Decies influenced Intel after Andy Grove witnessed a demo PC built by
>Decies at Microsoft (you will see the motherboard sitting on one
>exec's window sill)
>
>If you ever doubted DEC's influence on the PC industry then you should
>watch this video. In essence, the people at "DEC West Seattle" did to
>the PC industry what DEC did to the minicomputer industry.
>
>Neil Rieck
>Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
>Ontario, Canada.
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

Just what we need, yet another Micro$oft proprietary video format to keep
those who haven't partaken of the Micro$oft tainted koolaid from viewing.

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