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

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:

> 
> P 179: Digital Equipment, his (Cutler's) former employer and current
> nemesis, agreed to become the first computer maker to buy NT for the
> purpose of porting, or adapting, it to computers powered bu Digital's
> own microchip, called Alpha. The very people assigned to do the port
> were some of Cutler's old employees at Digital West. Cutler exulted,
> "Digital's management ran me out of the company" he said, "and a mere
> four years later they knocked on my door." Cutler saw the Mica
> operating system , whose cancellation by Digital prompted his
> departure, as a rough equivalent of NT. "Digital is now paying for
> something they could have had for free".

Can't follow that logic.
As we have stated here, NT as we know it has little to do
with whatever Cutler had come up with before he left DEC.
So DEC would have to pay for NT anyway, even if Cutler never existed.

> P 179.  But some Digital people privately agreed that Culter's
> departure still ranlked top executive and the Digital's adoption of NT
> was tantamount to admitting a mistake. "Driving asway Culter was one
> of the dumbest f*ck*ng things Digital ever did", on person said. "But
> we can't say we screwed up because some of the idiots responsible for
> that are still here"

How about proclaiming Cutler the next Messias?