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Gates got word that Cutler was disgruntled at Digital, and a mutual party set up a meeting.

Sheffield was the cutler to the world at one point but mass production has destroyed most of that business now.

Dave Cutler and team wrote some very, very elegant code that anyone (even if you're not a kernel hacker) can understand.

NT was a completely new OS foundation, unless you think Dave Cutler borrowed pieces of his own VMS work at Digital.

Dave Cutler is the real stuff of legends.

Dave Cutler was a lead engineer on both.

Windows has a distinct advantage thanks to design decisions made in VMS by Cutler et al; namely, I/O via I/O request packets, and much better memory management.

Gates persisted, ensuring Cutler that he would have the opportunity to build the next generation of OS from the ground up and essentially unlimited resources at his disposal to do it.

I'd love to work with Cutler above everyone else.

Heh, after reading Show Stoppers and Just For Fun, I actually think Cutler and Linus are actually very similar and would potentially get along in real life if it weren't for the epic technology divide.

DEC sued MS for a hefty sum and settled out of court for the IP that Cutler took and passed on to MS so at some level there is Mica stuff in NT or else MS would have probably won that suit.

Agreed, but slamming Dave Cutler's work on the NT kernel, as huhtenberg did, sounds more like trolling than anything else to me.

I recommend following Kim-Mai Cutler's Twitter if you want to find interesting articles/takes on SF's housing crisis.

The principle architect of VMS was David Cutler, purportedly the best engineer at Digital at the time (80s), and best OS designer in the industry.