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

[Michael Kraemer]

jls schrieb:

> 
> 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).

If WNT == VMS++
then how comes that the allegedly unhackable OS
turned into the most hacked one?
And how comes that absolutely nothing reminds me of
VMS whenever I have to touch a Windoze box?