Dave Cutler quotes
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“Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.”
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“Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.”
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“In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. [...] What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable [...].”
-- Dave CutlerSource : "Introduction". Inside Windows NT, 1998.
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“My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.”
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“I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.”
Source : "World's oldest person dies at age 116" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. December 5, 2012.
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“My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.”
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“You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.”
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