An interesting article on DEC

[Jerry Feldman]

Yes, the pdp-8 also supported multi user and multi tasking. The burger king
manex system used os-8 as it's os.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 10:40 AM jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com <
jonhall80 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I also disagree with many items in the article.
>
> Ignoring architectures like the PDP-11 and implying that multi-user
> started with VMS is just plain wrong.   The PDP-11 was a premier platform
> for multi-user operating systems like RSTS, RSX-11, and Unix to name just a
> few.
>
> Secondly the movement of the Linux kernel from being a single-architecture
> 32-bit architecture to being a N-architecture, 32/64 bit kernel had immense
> impact on the computer industry and that was facilitated by the Linux/Alpha
> project.
>
> Finally, I disagree that WNT was based either on OS/2 or VMS.   It was
> based on a micro-kernel system that was developed by Dave Cutler and his
> crew, and transported to Microsoft when Dave left and went there.   This
> was one reason why the three architectures that were supported by WNT at
> the announcement were Intel, MIPS and Alpha.   MIPS was dropped before
> shipping since DEC did not care about it anymore.   Alpha was dropped as
> soon as Microsoft could scrub all the code that came from DEC.
>
> I am familiar with this history since I was one of the people that Dave
> Cutler interviewed for being a product manager for the system when Dave was
> still working for DEC.   It was only months later that he left for
> Microsoft.
>
> md
>
>
> On 10/07/2023 4:35 PM EDT mikebw at colossus.bilow.com wrote:
>
>
>
> It's a great article. I was the principal consultant for IDS in that era,
> and there is a staff alumni group active on Facebook where I posted this
> link.
>
> I disagree with a number of the claims in the article, especially that
> Windows NT was based on VMS when in fact it was based on and developed
> using OS/2. There is a good and detailed book about this:
>
>
> https://www.gpascalzachary.com/showstopper__the_breakneck_race_to_create_windows_nt_and_the_next_generation_at_m_50101.htm
>
>
> On 10/7/23 16:07, Don wrote:
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/long-gone-dec-is-still-powering-the-world-of-computing/
>
>
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