Kind of crazy that what is possibly a throwaway remark by Cutler has become the basis for this whole "lore" of Dave hating Unix so much he went and made VMS (or variations on that theme). I guess it's a good story...
Damn I actually forgot where I got the "dislike Unix" line, I did read the book but I swear that is not the only source that I drafted up this question...
- A well-defined HAL for portability
- An object manager for unified resource lifecycle and governance
- Asynchronous I/O by default
- User-facing APIs bundled into independent “personalities” and decoupled from the kernel
The only real black mark I’m aware of is the move of the graphics subsystem into the kernel for performance, which I don’t think was Cutler’s idea.