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		tiffanyh on Nov 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_urin... > Considering that Windows NT's IOCP is very close to direct copy of VMS QIO mechanism Microsoft hired the main architect of VMS, Dave Cutler, away from DEC to design Windows NT - so this shouldn’t be a surprise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32602132

p_l on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

Not only that, Cutler went to MS essentially with a team and a project (that didn't get accepted at Digital) to redo VMS from scratch using same principles but with new experience and in cleaner way.

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