Talk: Dave Cutler
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See Talk:RSX-11 for my memories of Cutler. Note the puns. Cutler definitely intended WNT as a riff on VMS. Ortolan88
I sold him my debugging and disassembling program for the LINC computer at his pre-DEC company for a cut of the profits (he offered me $200, which I stupidly refused). I believe not one copy was ever sold. My first demonstration of my ineptness at business. David 21:44 Nov 12, 2002 (UTC)
There's a biography of Cutler at http://213.169.196.120/HTML/publications/Bulletin/DHBUL%2067%20Nov-1995.pdf but it's in Dutch and I couldn't get anything but the birth date out of it. Ortolan88
I didn't have much luck looking for his bio on the Web, other than brief overviews starting in the 1990's. David 20:24 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)
As far as I know, he left DEC and has been at Microsoft ever since. Was the NT on Alpha a joint project with MS that Compaq cancelled as part of the decades-long bemusement about what to do with Alpha? Ortolan88
However great Cutler's wit, the Windows NT name was derived from 'NT OS/2', the previous name for the project. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/fromms/kanoarchitect.asp
