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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

P. Sture wrote:
> 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.
> 

It took a while ;-) but W/XP is rock solid.  I haven't tried Vista, and 
won't!