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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <78797018-2cfb-402d-9eb9-b1f109c76092 at p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
	Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 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

That's funny.  I have always wanted to see a project started to take
FreeBSD and rewrite it in Pascal or even better, Ada.  :-)
Oh well, I suppose that could be another of those retirement projects
I keep piling up.


bill

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