[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> Trying to replace the "Cutler is God" myth with "Windows is OpenVMS
> Reimplemented" fact. Don't believe me? Then watch the Rob Short video:


My old PSION PDA (circa early 1990s) had many features similar to VMS.
It had the equivalent to mailboxes for interprocess communications, it
had a DECNET like stack where you could remotely start tasks a d
exchange data, and you could , on the PSION, edit files residing on
another machine.  Priorities were similar as well (any priorty above 16
got "real time" like stuff.

And there were rumours that a number of PSION engineers had come from
DEC (Reading).

Does that make the PDA a "VMS re-implemented ?".

There are certain core concepts in an OS which are fairly common.

Windows doesn't have commonality iwt the VMS file system, it doesn'T
have RMS, it doesn't have clustering, its file specifications are quite
different, its device names are quite different.

Let me ask you this: Data General was made up of a lot of ex DEC folks.
Does this mean that AOS-VS was a re-implementation of VMS ? It was quite
different to the user and system manager, even if some core concepts in
the kernel might have been similar.


It is an insult to say that Windows is VMS re-implememted.
Deffectors to Microsoft should not be glorified. People should limit
themselves to stating that many ex-Digits went on to work at Microsoft.