On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:01:23 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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?

You obviously haven't actually worked on these systems, so I'll forgive
you.

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