From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <186a21e49ab3c0092768cd17fe589b46@9netics.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:52:18 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 18e20088-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> Microsoft, last I heard. I believe he contributed some of Mach into >> NT. > > I don't think that's it. I've been told many times that NT was the > post-VMS OS that was developed at DEC by Cutler et. al. and taken en masse > to MS, rumor has it that a lot of source went too. I knew a fellow who had > done VMS source hackery at DEC for many years, and he said his knowledge > of VMS innards made beating on NT very easy ... "it's 100% bug > compatible". My vague recollection from "Show-stopper" seems to support this. He hired (I think 5) members of the team from DEC, who became the core of the kernel team.