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The only thing I remember is from the book Showstopper https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how-should-we-interpret-dave-cutlers-criticism-
by lizknope 1y ago
The only thing I remember is from the book Showstopper
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how-should-we-interpret-dave-cutlers-criticism-of-unix https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how...
[Cutler] expressed his low opinion of the Unix process input/output model by reciting "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture.
- phendrenad2 1y agoKind of crazy that what is possibly a throwaway remark by Cutler has become the basis for this whole "lore" of Dave hating Unix so much he went and made VMS (or variations on that theme). I guess it's a good story...
- twoodfin 1y agoAlmost all the major ways in which NT deviates from UNIX have strong cases as being architectural wins: - A well-defined HAL for portability - An object manager for unified resource lifecycle and governance - Asynchronous I/O by default - User-facing APIs bundled into independent “personalities” and decoupled from the kernel The only real black mark I’m aware of is the move of the graphics subsystem into the kernel for performance, which I don’t think was Cutler’s idea.
- ferguess_k 1y agoDamn I actually forgot where I got the "dislike Unix" line, I did read the book but I swear that is not the only source that I drafted up this question...