24 Oct
2006
24 Oct
'06
10:58 a.m.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
[SNIP]
Then Microsoft got lucky by hiring a key VMS architect (I forget who)
Dave Cutler.
and therefore NT became more of a Microsoft interpretation of VMS rather than Microsoft's version of OS/2 (there is a strong rumour I heard once
It's a shame that it didn't. VMS was (and probably still is) a really good OS. I spent many years programming on VMS (and RSTS/E, and RT11, etc.)
Cheers, Laurie.
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