[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 @ 17:30 -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke said:

> Only in a very distant sort of way.  It's not VMS.  It shares -some- of
> the same concepts, but NT doesn't really look like VMS on the inside.

Not now... but earlier on it was a lot different.

It changed to the point where Dave Cutler evidently got extremely pissed
off at Microsoft management and marketing.

For example, it was originally going to be headless and capable of
timesharing like VMS and UNIX.

Graphics and most other subsystems were supposed to have been seperated.

Question: does anyone know if Dave Cutler still works for M$? If not,
where is he these days?

A lot of DEC people seem to have not liked him.

> >independence as a design methodology from the ground up, due to early 
> >experiences with the original target platform.
> 
> Correct.  It was designed on a DEC MIPS system, at that.

According to a website put up by some NT team members, it started on the
i860.


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