[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11-01-2010 05:01, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Neil Rieck schrieb:
>> Lots of people are still sending me emails bashing my Windows posts
>
> and rightfully so.
> People accuse Palmer for abandoning VMS and turning
> DEC into a M$/windoze company, yet they appear to follow
> exactly his footsteps.
> So either he was right or people are a bit schizophrenic these days.

What made sense for the Digital CEO in the 1990's and what makes
sense for the ordinary VMS user 15 years later is two very different
things.

>> which indicated where Windows came from kernel-wise (Cutler and VMS)
>
> didn't we bury this
> "Cutler created WNT==VMS++ and therefore it must be good"
> myth not too long ago?

It is not a myth that Windows kernel is very inspired from VMS
due to Cutler and other.

Most people do not care much about the kernel when evaluating
an OS.

Arne