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Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:13:27 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

En el artÃ*culo , Huge
escribió:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

Yep.

What's interesting is that the more you dig into the NT kernel, the more
you can see the influence of VMS, thanks to Cutler.


Yes, the archirecture is very similar in many places.


Is that a nice way of saying 'the design of the arsehole' ??

Not to mention
ODS-2/Files-11 and NTFS. That did Executive Software a lot of good.



In the same way moving from an ox plough to a traction engine was a lot
of good?

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