Re: Upgrading to Vista

class_a wrote:
Desmond wrote:

But historacaly Windows XP maybe built on good solid old NT
technology, but who wrote NT, was it not IBM OS2 stolen by Microsoft
at gun point.

Funny stuff.


I thought the programmer who was at the head of the NT team was also
the person responsible for VMS?


David Cutler worked on both projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler_%28software_engineer%29#VMS


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