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OT: Dave Cutler in the news

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Neil Rieck

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May 23, 2013, 7:18:42 AM5/23/13
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Not sure how many people here follow news from the computer gaming industry. Microsoft hosted a conference on Tuesday (May-21, 2013) to announce technical details about the XBOX-720 which will now be known as "Xbox One". Here are two details which leaped from the summary page:

1) "Employs Three OSs" (two with a hypervisor?)
2) "Dave Cutler is Involved"

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-xbox-one-whats-windows-got-to-do-with-it-7000015684/

So I searched elsewhere and discovered this:

"Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox"

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-dave-cutler-father-of-windows-nt-now-working-on-xbox/11684

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

Bob Koehler

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May 29, 2013, 10:45:37 AM5/29/13
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In article <d874af0e-9958-4620...@googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.r...@sympatico.ca> writes:
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> "Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox"
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So I'll be able to an IO$_DIAGNOSE on an Xbox? Has Dave ever done
anything other than an I/O subsystem?

Neil Rieck

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May 29, 2013, 1:18:52 PM5/29/13
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I think RSX-11M was a good start. VMS was even better. Moving these concepts into Windows-NT was icing on the cake. Read his computing bio in his own words:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.html#forward

NSR

Johnny Billquist

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May 29, 2013, 1:37:22 PM5/29/13
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Pretty much every module in RSX-11M has his name at the top of it. (And
if you ask me, it has only gone downhill since then... ;-) )

Johnny

^P

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May 31, 2013, 7:12:42 AM5/31/13
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I think John Neblett was the intellectual precursor of the RSX-11 operating system for the PDP-11, he went to do more high flying in real time for the TRW-130.

^P

Johnny Billquist

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May 31, 2013, 9:55:31 AM5/31/13
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The history of RSX-11 is complex. First of all, what Dave Cutler did was
a redesign/reimplementation, which was RSX-11M. It is, from a user point
of view, very much similar to RSX-11D, which was the direct precursor.
Under the hood, the differences are much larger, however.

We also have IAS. And not to forget RSX-11A, RSX-11B and RSX-11C. But
they all came from RSX-15 (for the PDP-15), which was done by Dan
Brevik. Where the inspiration for RSX-15 came from, I have no idea.

But that don't change that it's Dave Cutlers name that is at the top of
just about every module in RSX-11M. He did a lot more that the I/O
subsystem there. Which was what the question was.

Johnny

Paul Sture

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Jun 29, 2013, 7:34:53 AM6/29/13
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From a sigfile I just came across:

HAL 9000: Dave. Put down those Windows disks. Dave. DAVE!

:-)

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Paul Sture
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