On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Daniel O. Escasa wrote:
..
> Sabi ni Orly noong Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:32:44 +0800 (PHT)
>
> > That's true. In fact the lead WinNT architect (Dave Winer) was also the
> > lead designer of VMS.
>
> Isn't that Dave *Cutler*?
Yes it is. *shrink* realized it belatedly. Mr Winer must be some other
famous personality.. :)
>
> > If you look at it, NT is a very nice OS. Many important performance tweaks
> > first came out on NT -- completion ports, interrupt-to-processor binding,
> > kernel-level daemons.
> >
> > But.. the execution has been kind of lacking. Nice ideas, poor
> > implementation.
>
> If I recall correctly, Linus himself acknowledged the good design of
> NT/2K and bewailed the poor implementation. Wonder where Microsoft
> went wrong?
..
Heh. What went wrong with VMS? :)
About the only *good* OS I've seen (both in terms of design and
execution) is OS/2. Wonder where THAT went.. :)
(and don't tell me NUMA IRIX 6.4 is good.. Linus has a lot of bad to say
about the OpenGL implementation in the IRIX kernel)
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