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

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:
> On Nov 11, 8:47 pm, "P. Sture" <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> 

>>
>>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.
> 
> 
> Not just games, but particularly anything which was video intensive.
> This was back in the days when a Matrox Millenium was a high end
> graphics card.
> 

> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> Indeed. And it could in principle have been that way, if Gates and his
> engineering organisation had wanted it to be that way. But it didn't
> work out that way, and the rest is history.
> 

So once and for all times we could bury this
"Cutler created NT as a VMS offspring and hence NT must be good"
legend?