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/ The Egg, VMS, or NT?
I appreciated "VMS: Alive and Well" (Core, November 1996), but author Ben Smith had his facts reversed when he stated that "VMS has incorporated many of NT's data structures and design elements." Dave Cutler was the chief architect of NT; before that, he was employed by Digital Equipment as one of the original architects of VMS. In fact,
many of NT's internal data structures resemble those of early versions of VMS. NT owes a lot of its success -- present and future -- to its VMS heritage, not vice versa.
Glenn Carr
gcarr@lgc.com
Actually, it has worked both ways. NT can be said to be a descendant of VMS in some respects, but the point I wanted to make is that VMS has now had to adopt many of NT's structures in order to coexist with it and profit from its growth
. NT has drained off some of VMS's potential, as did Unix. -- Ben Smith
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