RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On 27 May 1998, Felix Morley Finch wrote:

> I heard it was one guy in particular, can't think of his name now, who
> was promised the chance to design an OS from the ground up any way he
> wanted.  (He had been teh chief architect of VMS at Digital.)

Dave Cutler.  He brought his entire design team to MS.

> When he got done, the Mickeysoft people moved in and trashed it.  He was
> so pissed he threatened to quit, but this would have been an extrememly
> embarassing way to kick off their brand spanking new OS, so they paid
> him $4M ($4,000,000) to stay around and do whatever wanted, except of
> course go public or work on his^H^H^Htheir new OS. 

Essentially correct.  Note carefully that Cutler hasn't been too heavily
involved in post-NT-3.1 dev.

> And one of its features was supposed to be a micro kernel with most
> drivers in user space, but performace stank so bad that they have
> gradually moved most everything back in for speed, and all the pieces
> step on each other and provide the well known NT reliability and
> robustness.

True.  Video drivers, for example.


--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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