Re: Operating Systems (was: Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1)

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <9cs4go$ket$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> Hey, dude! Its VMS Forever!!! :-)
> 
> My understanding of the situation is this: (Someone please stop me before I
> go off inventing history again!!! :-) Micro$oft wanted to discontinue the
> MS-DOS based OS's in favor of a next-generation product that would be a
> *real* OS, complete with virtual memory, real security, networking built in,
> etc. They hired a bunch of guys who once invented VMS to do the job.
> Figuring it would take a while to get there, they thought there was time
> enough to do one more iteration on the MS-DOS based OS and capture a bunch
> of cash from the gullible and the stupid, before giving them a *real* OS.

I think rather somebody said "Let's write a secure operating system"
and someone else noticed that it took more memory and would not let
games go tromping all over the hardware.

Speaking of Microsoft and Security in the Ada conference, the name
Martin Carlisle rings a bell...

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