NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

Jeff Siegel writes:
" I can easily imagine someone opening a gazillion apps in each desktop 
 and then the whole house of cards comes to a crash."

Well Microsoft operating systems tend not to 'lock up' 
the way they used to after David Cutler was employed to 
work on NT.

See:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.htm
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and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

I always would recommend to junior programmers working on 'VMS' 
projects to check the historical timelines of VMS and 
Unix before continuing to complain that they wanted to work on 
'newer' operating systems like Unix.
(in point of fact VMS is newer and for my money fixed things
which could be characterized as 'occasionally problematic' in
Unix)

Once a week I light a candle for the WMS on the Itanium chip 
project at HP and hope everyone will come to their senses.

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