[Simh] Alpha simulator performance

[Ian King]

On 4/20/12 9:41 PM, "Sergey Oboguev" <oboguev at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:01:11PM -0400, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
>
>> Given that Cutler was the core architect on both, that isn't exactly
>>surprising. 
>>
>
>As a minor historical correction: whatever Cutler's merits are, he was
>not "the" 
>core architect of VMS, as common legend has it.
>As evidenced by the headers in VMS sources, he was just one of the key
>architects and developers for the kernel, let alone the whole system.
>Even at early VAX architecture design state there were three key people
>on the 
>software side (Hustvedt, Lippman and Cutler) and when it came down to the
>actual 
>VMS design and implementation it naturally became even more diluted, with
>different people covering different major areas.

My OS professor, Hank Levy, was one of those folks (architects of VMS).
It made for an interesting class!  -- Ian