https://www.theverge.com/news/690815/bill-gates-linus-torvalds-meeting-photo
Yes, fine, but, there’s a 3rd person in that picture:
- Dave Cutler.
After a period at DuPont, he began working at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1971.
For those people who have read RSX11-M operating system source code, Cutler’s name appears quite often in the comments.
In June 1975, Cutler and a couple of colleagues began work on the 32-bit virtual-address extension of RSX-11 for the DEC VAX hardware – that operating system was released with the name VAX/VMS.
Before leaving DEC in 1988 to take up a position at Microsoft, Cutler was the lead developer of DEC’s compilers – he lead the development of a compiler suite with a common machine dependent back-end. If I recall correctly, the only DEC compiler which wasn’t part of that project was, the DEC “C” compiler …
Cutler is still a member of the Microsoft staff – the projects he was/is involved in are –
Windows NT, Live Platform, Windows Azure and, Xbox.
Cutler was never very amused with respect to UNIX® – he has made more than a few unfriendly remarks with respect to UNIX® – despite the view that, when you read the RSX11-M source code, there are many aspects of RSX11-M, especially around the scheduler, which are remarkably similar to the work done by Thompson and Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs.