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

[jls]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:31:07 -0600, Paul Raulerson
<paul at raulersons.com> wrote:


>
>Not to mention that there is at least as much "borrowed" technology  
>from UNIX in NT there is from VMS.
>And when you hit Windows XP, there is far more UNIX based technology  
>cloned into NT than from VMS.
>
>I have never fully understood this, since in some ways, VMS is clearly  
>superior to the contemporary UNIX
>implementations of that time.

My recollection from that time period is reading a few articles
written in mags from erstwhile VMS Internals experts that NT had VMS
written all over it.

It may not be so true today, but the earlier versions, IIRC, were so
VMS-ish internally that even some of the code was copied verbatim
(i.e., including comments with the initials of VMS engineers).