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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (blogsystem5.substack.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Agreed.

I skimmed through the article, and see no mention of ~~DEC Alpha~~ VMS, which is NT's predecessor, which is really disappointing. Great read though, very well done.

DOS and Win3.1 really have little to do with NT. A DEC Alpha team was laid off around 1990, MS hired them, and NT is the result. Mark Minasi (I think, may also have been his partner, who's name I can't remember) wrote an article about 1998 in Windows Magazine (NT Magazine?) about it, and broke down the components of both NT and Alpha to demonstrate the similarity.

I've been looking for the article for a couple years now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alpha was a processor. You’re thinking of VMS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You're right. Thanks for the reminder. Memory ain't what it used to be.

[–] Treczoks 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, the good old VMS. Did quite some coding on a VAX11/780. Very nice and round OS. NT was basically a VMS clone for Intel. Although I think there was an implementation for the Alpha, too.