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Windows is based on VMS? Huh? If anything, it's based on DOS and OS/2 (NT).
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
Windows is based on VMS? Huh? If anything, it's based on DOS and OS/2 (NT).
- njl 11y agoDave Cutler was a lead for VMS, then left DEC for Microsoft and led the development of Windows NT.
- mahmud 11y agoWhat you consider today "Windows" is actually Windows NT. Dave Cuttler was a lead architect of both NT and VMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler Cuttler and a core of VMS team exited en masse to work on NT. In fact, he coined the term "WNT" as a play on "VMS", each letter is a successor to the corresponding one. (c.f. IBM <==> HAL) http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...