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

[Wilm Boerhout]

Richard B. Gilbert mentioned  on 11-11-2009 22:02:
> Rich Alderson wrote:
>> 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_.
>>
> 
> It's not easy being dylsexic!

That is surely one condition that should be renamed for the benefit of 
those suffering from it!

/W