AFAIK WinNT consolidated a lot of ideas from VMS into more coherent constructs, pity that not all of them are exposed to developers (There is, for example, the

AFAIK WinNT consolidated a lot of ideas from VMS into more coherent constructs, pity that not all of them are exposed to developers (There is, for example, the option of using kernel upcalls in VMS style i.e. ASTs, but it's completely "private" API)