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

[P. Sture]

In article <hdajgu$1c8$00$1 at news.t-online.com>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> 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?

As I recall the Windows APIs were forced on it. There was also an outcry 
from people who knew about operating systems when it was decided to put 
the graphics in the kernel at NT 4.0.  The motivation behind that was 
allegedly to improve performance with games.

What irritates me looking back at that time is that NT ws being actively
promoted by many as being reliable _because_ of its VMS heritage.

-- 
Paul Sture