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We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

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Dave Cutler

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 [. . . ].

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Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

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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.

Application, Memories, Minicomputers, Real, Running, Supported

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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