Re: [Nolug] Comparative OS Stability

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:29, Scott Harney wrote:
> LinuxLaw <linuxlaw@bellsouth.net> writes:
>
> > Laying off the ad hominem attacks will definitely let us "keep on the
> > task at hand" and keep things from getting ugly.
>
> Many of the people who post here know each other from meetings and
> the list and regularly joke with one another. You interpreted an attack but
> you were actually witnessing some teasing. That's understandable of course.
> A perusal of list archives will bear this out. Knowing Ron, I doubt seriously
> that he was actually making an attack.
>
> Of course Ron thinks VMS is the one true OS so that could explain it. Of course
> Win2k/NT is an attempt to recreate VMS but don't tell him that ;). [1]

There's no reason to hide it. It's well known that Dave Cutler did do
that. Anyone who knows VMS internals and then looks at WinNT internals
(that which is exposed to the public) will see striking similarities in
data types and structures.

So just because the attempt to recreate was done poorly (mostly because
of MSFT people who at the time didn't grok muti-user/multi-programming,
and insisted on polluting it by weaving Win32 deeply into the OS)
doesn't mean the attempt wasn't made...

> [1] example. not an ad-hominem but a tease likely to get a rise out of him.

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