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

[Rich Alderson]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>    I recall statments from Culter that VMS -> WNT naming similar to
>    IBM -> HAL was intentional.  But then I also recall statements that 
>    Culter only worked on the I/O subsystem of each, and being familiar 
>    with device drivers in both I can see familiarity, not code, not even 
>    the same API.  I'm under the impression that Culter offered to do a
>    VMS-like well compartmented design to Bill Gates and was turned down.

>    People who know the Windows kernel much better than I care to have
>    said the similarity is soley within Culter's I/O subsystem.

The man's name is _Cutler_.

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