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

[P. Sture]

In article <00A944EC.E5121054 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <KD6EMXmHr9Cj at eisner.encompasserve.org>, 
> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> >In article <rqrgf5l0duc5n8247ofodn728nd2gbbld4 at 4ax.com>, jls 
> ><notvalid at yahoo.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> 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).
> >
> >   I recall statments from Culter that VMS -> WNT naming similar to
> >   IBM -> HAL was intentional.  But then I also recall statements that 
> 
> HAL was a step up from IBM.  WNT was a step down from VMS.  In fact,
> ZQW seems a more appropriate.  Not really but I ran out of alphabet.

WINNT had HAL too - Hardware Abstraction Layer.

-- 
Paul Sture