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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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?

Because the inherited stuff like memory management
and device drivers architecture are:
- invisible to users
- irrelevant for most security issues

Arne