| (1/3) I found this as an MHT file, edited as best I can. Maybe I should get this to archive.org? Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:40:05 -0700
From: Windows Contact Us <wincu@css.one.microsoft.com>
We apologize for the delay in our response.I have attached "The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right" an interview
with Cutler and Mark Lucovsky. Goldie, Microsoft.com Customer Support ___ The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right Once upon a time ... there was NT OS/2. Every month, Nadine Kano prowls the halls of Redmond to profile the real folks behind Windows 2000 development. This month: David Cutler and Mark Lucovsky, who helped guide the operating system from its infancy. "Well, we were just about to leave," David Cutler says from behind his desk. I'm five minutes late to my interview with Cutler and Mark Lucovsky, two of the original architects of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. As I wilt into the carpet, I realize Lucovsky must have mentioned to his colleague how nervous I was about approaching them. After all, who the hell am I to be talking with these guys? They are developers' developers two of the visionaries behind the operating system that began as NT OS/2 and has evolved into Windows 2000. Cutler refuses virtually all interviews with the press, but he and Lucovsky are willing to talk to me, a program manager from down the hall. They probably find my nervousness amusing. Build it, ground up I was a college senior when Bill Gates personally recruited Cutler, Lucovsky, and others from Digital to begin the NT OS/2 project at Microsoft. Their quest was to build, from the ground up, an advanced PC operating system, something far beyond MS-DOS. NT signified "New Technology." One of my engineering classmates, David Treadwell, joined Microsoft to work on NT. I remember how excited he was to be a part of this obscure little development effort that none of us really understood. Remember that 1989 was before Windows 3.0. In 1989, Windows was still a nonentity. |
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