[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.
Tim E. Sneddon
tim.sneddon at bigpond.com
Mon Nov 9 18:40:07 EST 2009
JF Mezei wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
>
>> Mr Bell joined Microsoft's Bay Area Research Centre in 1995:
>> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/gbell/
>
> So he left Digital while it was being sabotaged and dismembered by
> Palmer and joined Microsoft at a time where it was working to use the NT
> kernel for its mass market machines. Those are large engineering projects.
No. Bell left DEC in 1983 after 23 years with the company. If you listen
to the PDP-10 crowd he left after ensuring the death of 36-bit computing.
Tim.
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