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

[Arne Vajhøj]

jls wrote:
> 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.

I have heard that about device drivers as well.

And it is obvious that the memory management were very "inspired"
by VMS.

> 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).

It is a bit difficult to copy Macro-32 & Bliss code over in C code.

I do not not believe that part.

Arne