Great article about a very significant accomplishment. Few of us get a chance to write an operating system--Dave wrote three. VMS was about as solid as you ca

Great article about a very significant accomplishment. Few of us get a chance to write an operating system--Dave wrote three. VMS was about as solid as you can imagine. At the time, I wondered if there weren't too many features in VMS and now NT. But that is always the tension, isn't it? One interesting fact that the article doesn't cover is that MS had to pay Compaq, interitor of DEC, something like $60 million as the result of hiring Cutler. There are very significant similarities in NT with VMS. All in all, it was certainly worth it.