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

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Sat Nov 7 21:57:12 EST 2009


JF Mezei schrieb:

> ##
> “When our customers had beta
> copies of Windows NT, they told us
> that it felt like they were revisiting
> an old friend. That’s not surprising
> because the chief architect of both
> operating systems was Dave Cutler.
> So there is a natural affinity from a
> technical perspective between the two
> environments. Wes Melling is often
> quoted calling it the ‘Cutler effect.’”
> —Mary Ellen Fortier
> Director, OpenVMS Marketing
> ##
> 

But why is it that,
whenever I'm forced to sit in front of a Windoze box,
I never feel "hey, this is just like VMS, only better"?




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