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Dave Cutler Biography

Software Engineer

Dave Cutler, born on March 13, 1942, is a renowned software engineer. He has held several key positions at Microsoft and has made significant contributions to the field of operating systems.

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“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.”

Knows Littles Enough Would Be Opportunity Lifetime Developing Fortunate Operating Systems Rare Opportunities

Author: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.”

Opportunity Interesting Building Offers Computer Summer Bills Gates Microsoft Operating Systems Personal Computers

Author:Dave Cutler

“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.”

Firsts Real Running Bits Lines Memories Development Projects Series Ran Digital Application Platforms Files Utility Hardware Multitasking Operating Systems Mapping Scheduling Swapping

Author:Dave Cutler

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

Programming Committees Junk Phds Unix

Author:Dave Cutler

About the Author

Born: March 13, 1942
Known for: Software Engineer
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