On 4/20/12 9:41 PM, "Sergey Oboguev" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:01:11PM -0400, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > >> Given that Cutler was the core architect on both, that isn't exactly >>surprising. >> > >As a minor historical correction: whatever Cutler's merits are, he was >not "the" >core architect of VMS, as common legend has it. >As evidenced by the headers in VMS sources, he was just one of the key >architects and developers for the kernel, let alone the whole system. >Even at early VAX architecture design state there were three key people >on the >software side (Hustvedt, Lippman and Cutler) and when it came down to the >actual >VMS design and implementation it naturally became even more diluted, with >different people covering different major areas. My OS professor, Hank Levy, was one of those folks (architects of VMS). It made for an interesting class! -- Ian _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
