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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: 0.419s | 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. markus_zhang ◴[04 Apr 25 03:11 UTC] No.43577962[source]▶
Thanks, I think he did an interview of David Cutler which is pretty interesting.
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2. progmetaldev ◴[04 Apr 25 04:12 UTC] No.43578261[source]▶
Yes, lmz <https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lmz> pointed out that I had mixed up Dave Plummer and Dave Cutler. There are actually multiple videos that Dave Plummer has done with Dave Cutler, which I found very interesting.

Reminds me of Coders At Work, by Peter Seibel, which I read right around the time that I decided to get deeper into software. Being able to read or hear about the process that went on in someone's head while developing something so major was and is still impressive, and motivating.