[OT] NT, software reliability, and the lack thereof. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Mar 1999

On Monday, March 15, 1999 4:34 PM, Max Eskin [SMTP:max82@surfree.com] wrote:
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  On 15 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
 The actual operating system deep in the bowels of
Windows NT isn't so
bad.  But they have lventy-seven layers of crap on top of it to keep
you from seing anything that might be simple and elegant.  
 Of course, the kernel can't be blamed for much of anything. I'm sure that
 if Microsoft got its hands on VMS source code, they would mess it up,
 while if DEC got its hands on NT source code, they would make something
 wonderful out of it...

Didn't all the lead technicians who built NT come from DEC?  In fact wasn't  Dave
Cutler, NT head honcho, the designer of VMS?

Bob