[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

Since any idiot can put up a web page these days, you know it all
can't be true. So imagine my surprise when I bumped into this:

http://radsoft.net/rants/20040831,00.shtml

<quote>Dave always wanted to rewrite VMS in C. He hated Unix but loved
C. As soon as he'd finished VMS he suggested the rewrite. He was
turned down flat. Several years later he found himself in Seattle and
essentially was doing the rewrite in C when word came DEC were tired
of him.</quote>

This article contains lots of other (possibly) questionable facts, but
think about the statement above "rewrite VMS in C". If this had
happened, we would have VMS or OpenVMS on any platform including
x86-64

NSR