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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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"?
> 

Well, it's clearly better in some ways!  When $700 US buys the computer 
and a licensed copy of Windows?  ISTR that a VMS license sold for almost 
  $2000 per seat.