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

[P. Sture]

In article <rqrgf5l0duc5n8247ofodn728nd2gbbld4 at 4ax.com>,
 jls <notvalid at yahoo.com> 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.
> 
> 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).

There was a series of articles in Windows NT Magazine in 1997 exploring 
NT process and memory management.  I remember thinking that I could have 
written large chunks of it myself, based purely on VMS knowledge.

-- 
Paul Sture