Dave Plummer

line by line.

So you see it all.

Yeah.

It was.

It was basically a clean sheet design.

So they went and they got Dave Cutler from Digital Equipment, who had done operating systems for them, VMS and RSX-11, he had done.

And so he came over after, I believe it was Prism and Micah were some projects at DEC West that got canceled.

And so you had a whole team of guys involved.

Well, their project just canceled, and basically they took a whole bunch of them and came to Microsoft.

And I don't know specifically what the deal, but they all showed up.

So you get Dave Cutler and Mark Lukowski and all these really smart guys from DEC.

And they did basically a clean sheet, but they also had OS2 as a starting point.

But OS2 was, of course, written in assembly language, and NT is going to be written in C. So...

To what extent they were able to leverage any of that, I don't actually know.

But at least they had a system to start with.

So Dave Cutler is the architect of the kernel.

So he is Linus.

In the Linux world, it's Dave C in the Windows world.

Dave C, okay.

And it's not that there weren't other people that contributed, of course, huge pieces to it, but I think he's the driving force behind it and always largely has been.