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How Big Is VMS?

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77 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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markus_zhang ◴[03 Apr 25 23:54 UTC] No.43576868[source]▶
David Cutler is one of my heroes. I think he only worked on the first version of VMS, but his expertise of OS design and implementation is probably second to few.

Does anyone know whether he is still working in Microsoft? What does it feel to work with him?

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progmetaldev ◴[04 Apr 25 01:13 UTC] No.43577343[source]▶
His series on YouTube, Dave's Garage, has really helped me to conceptualize Operating Systems in the past that I used, but didn't really fully understand. I started with Atari DOS, but moved to the 286 roughly around the time it started to become popular, along with MS-DOS. I'm 45 now, so didn't think about things as deeply back then, as far as constraints and why things may have been built the way they were. I think his series really does a great job at looking into both technology and company politics (especially his time at Microsoft).

https://youtu.be/xi1Lq79mLeE?feature=shared

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1. lmz ◴[04 Apr 25 02:51 UTC] No.43577853[source]▶
That's Dave PLUMMER's channel. Dave CUTLER is the guest in that video.
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2. progmetaldev ◴[04 Apr 25 03:55 UTC] No.43578174[source]▶
You are correct, thank you. Dave Cutler has apparently done many guest spots on Dave's Garage, so many that I confused their names! Appreciate the correction, so I can perform some better searches of Dave Cutler, having only looked into the videos on YouTube.