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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64331)1/21/2002 2:07:50 PM
From: Shawn M. Downey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Microsoft hired David Cutler away from Digital to develop Windows NT. Cutler is a kind of
mad genus and chief architect of VMS. When he when to Microsoft it made the
news. It was a BIG hit for Digital at that time as I recall. His expertise and approach to
OS design is most definitely in NT.

>MSFT did hire some ex-VMS designers from DEC when it set out to
>build Windows NT, but to my knowledge >there is no VMS code
>per se in any MSFT product.


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