Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by wolfgke » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
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Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by eej71 » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by EamonnMR » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

For a detailed account, there's always _Show Stopper!_ by G. Pascal Zachary which is a shot at writing a _Soul of the new Machine_ style book about Microsoft during the creation of NT. If that sort of story entertains you, I recommend it.

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by megaman22 » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:43 PM UTC

eej71 wrote: post #2

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

Appears to be submitted after this comment in the z/OS thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652444

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by chaotic_clanger » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:49 PM UTC

eej71 wrote: post #2

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

i must say i find it very interesting and maybe a bit ironic that nt is built on pirated sources (and architecture)

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:49 PM UTC

eej71 wrote: post #2

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

Novelty perhaps? A quick and dirty Algolia search suggests this story is the most popular one ever with "VMS" in the title. On the personal side, Dad wrote VMS scripts for work.

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by caspper69 » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:50 PM UTC

chaotic_clanger wrote: post #5

eej71 wrote: post #2

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

i must say i find it very interesting and maybe a bit ironic that nt is built on pirated sources (and architecture)

Nowhere in that (poorly written) article did it say that anything was pirated.

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by atombender » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 2:01 PM UTC

chaotic_clanger wrote: post #5

eej71 wrote: post #2

Interesting that this story rises to the top. Curious what draws people to it?

i must say i find it very interesting and maybe a bit ironic that nt is built on pirated sources (and architecture)

It wasn't. NT was built from scratch.

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by atombender » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

EamonnMR wrote: post #3

For a detailed account, there's always _Show Stopper!_ by G. Pascal Zachary which is a shot at writing a _Soul of the new Machine_ style book about Microsoft during the creation of NT. If that sort of story entertains you, I recommend it.

Seconding this recommendation. It's well written and covers a very interesting period of Microsoft's history that many people don't know about.

Re: Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

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Post by zargon » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

My high school had a VAX in the '90s that served a whole lab of terminals and was available over dial-up. A lot of my early programming was on that machine. Later I bought a VAX off ebay, joined DEC's VMS hobbyist program and provided free accounts to people at HobbesNet (https://web.archive.org/web/20050125003015/http://hobbesnet....). I kinda regret getting rid of those machines now. It looks like the Deathrow cluster is gone now too (https://deathrow.vistech.net/410.html).