Re: Warning: Elliott and Wiseman and McGhie are Still Ranting
- From: Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:51:53 +0100
In article <BF5F4425.225CE%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>, John McGhie [MVP - Word
and Word Macintosh] <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> On 27/9/05 4:48 PM, in article eLKT337wFHA.2072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jeff
> Wiseman" <throwawayacct223@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Only because I don't even have the time to feed myself anymore.
> > Man am I tired...
>
> {Chortle} I'll press my advantage then :-) With only Elliott awake, I
> might even win one... :-)
Heh! You only got that far because I was in France re-stocking the wine
cellar and doing stupid things on a new mountain bike. Not a good idea
for someone of my age and lack of fitness.
I'd just like to add that I'm a long time fan of that Windows architect
you mentioned, but not by name (Dave Cutler) He doesn't know it, and
wouldn't care, even if he did, but he taught me to program properly.
Lots of people say that Windows owes a lot to VMS (Dave was very
heavily involved in version 1 thereof) However, another project of
Dave's at Digital Equipment, called VAXeln, was in many ways closer to
the original NT 3.5.1 than VMS. The HAL (hardware abstraction layer) is
pure Cutler. Indeed the whole I/O model would be very familiar to
anyone who knows VMS or its predecessor RSX-11M. It was the source code
of the latter that was Cutler's contribution to my education. Back when
the world was new and all.
I'm looking forward with great interest to Vista. A lot of people will
be looking at the eye-candy and comparing it with OS X, but there is a
*lot* more going on in there.
We live in interesting times.
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