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How Big Is VMS?

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77 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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voidfunc ◴[04 Apr 25 00:50 UTC] No.43577211[source]▶
He's a high level technical fellow as far as I know but he's also 83. I suspect his involvement these days, if any, is purely advisory to a limited group of core NT kernel and RDOS engineers.
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1. jonstewart ◴[04 Apr 25 04:31 UTC] No.43578342[source]▶
The last article I read about him implied that he’s intent on working and that working with him was… intense. But that was a few years ago.

I like to imagine there’s an inner sanctum in a secure sub-basement of Microsoft where a couple dozen cracked kernel developers work quietly… except when Dave Cutler asks them to come into his personal lab through the three foot thick blast doors and man-trap so he can yell at them about a bug he found.