Re:Computer History Museum Interview with David Cutler (2018...
by dboreham on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:01AM
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To be completely accurate he wasn't really "the guy behind VMS". He worked on a version of VMS. I think he was on the wrong coast to be a key player in the original development of VMS.
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Re:Computer History Museum Interview with David Cutler (2018...
by kryptiskt on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:50AM
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It certainly seems like he was there from the beginning (and it was built to be compatible with RSX-11M which he was the lead for):
"In April 1975, Digital Equipment Corporation embarked on a project to design a 32-bit extension to its PDP-11 computer line. The hardware component was code named Star; the operating system was code named Starlet. Roger Gourd was the project lead for VMS. Software engineers Dave Cutler, Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lipman acted as technical project leaders.[29] The Star and Starlet projects culminated in the VAX-11/780 computer and the VAX/VMS operating system. The Starlet project's code name survives in VMS in the name of several of the system libraries, including STARLET.OLB and STARLET.MLB.[30] VMS was mostly written in VAX MACRO with some components written in BLISS.[10]"