Quite correct. I have the very first (not serial number) book published
on NT internals, and if you could have taken a regexp parser to the
book, 80% would have been an exact match for VMS internals.
Not that much of a coincidence, since Dave Cutler came from a VMS
background.
VMS still has something that no one else has matched yet;
True clustering of many many machines, like hundreds, all sharing the
same authorization system, complete with not just file locking, but
record locking within the file system itself. As a matter of fact,
the locking system could be used for locking any resource whatsoever,
it did not have to be data in files. The locks are/were cluster wide.
At a previous place of employment, we had a 60+ node cluster, all managed
by 2 people 1/2 time. The system ran 365 - 24 x 7 with a 99.998% uptime.
Ah, those were the days. Now I have trepidation every time I install
a new application on my NT servers....
Steve
At 07:41 AM 5/19/2000 -0700, Cary Gordon wrote:
>Nope. The heart of NT was VMS!
>
>Cary
>
>At 03:21 PM 5/18/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>Isn't NT still at the heart a DOS core?
>>
>>KM
>
>
>Cary Gordon
>The Cherry Hill Company
>
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