[Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

[Bill Cunningham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se>
To: <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth


> On 2015-03-04 20:18, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>
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>> To: "SIMH" <Simh at trailing-edge.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 7:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth
>>
>>
>>> Incredible post! This list is worth following for the scope of
>>> information
>>> alone, even if you never run SIMH...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:28:25 -0800
>>> Sergey Oboguev <oboguev at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since the topic of "Cutler the Demiurg of VMS" comes up once in a while
>>>> here and there...
>>>
>>> [fantastic post deleted for brevity]
>>
>>     This sounds to me that Cutler and maye RSX was about the same time
>> that Ritchie and Thompson also got Unix together. And I guess it was 5
>> years later that Kildall put CP/M together. And the 8" diskette came
>> together.
>
> Actually, Ritchie and Thompson did Unix before Cutler did RSX. But Cutler 
> didn't design RSX, he just reimplemented it. The early versions of RSX are 
> contemporary with Unix, yes.
>
> Johnny

    Well you would know. But I've always heard Dave Cutler given full credit 
for RSX. I know he designed NTFS.

Bill