The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler

Get Dave to take over Consumer Windows and bring it back from the trainwreck it has become.

Dos was stole from a guy who drank himself to death very sad story.

epic.....that was an excellent trip thru computing world "in the trenches" as they say.... thanks for your efforts!

Tell me about stealing Apples idea without telling me about stealing.

"it was all that assembler and non-sense " .. I wrote part of that .. immediately qualified for participation trophy

This interviewing was wonderful. Dave Cutler is such a legend.

2 heroes in 1 video.

Interesting a father of one of my friends was 2Ic at Digital in Australia and never accepted going up the ladder one more rung and the actual owner of Digital at the time spoke to Tom and asked why he never accepted a promotion and his reply was I see that the top rung people never last more than two years.
The reply was I see you have worked out my strategy, Yes to keep people on top of their game I never keep the people in the number one position for more than two years.
That person was Gary kildall and Tom ws known as Trader Tom across the Industry it was funny seeing his system at home was a Dec Alpha 256 bit system and hooked up to a Monochrome Monitor.
There are some unique people from within the system especially in the early days, Dave Cutler is one of them

Does anyone like the fact that they are both named Dave.

"Fast Utility for Copying Kernel" -- Wow! Thank you. This brings back so many memories. I still have my slinky toys from the 1993 Professional Developers Conference in Anaheim.

Dave Plummer interviews Dave Cutler - thanks guys.

He should be more of a household name than he is

It's awesome to hear an octogenarian is still coding! I'm in my 50s and I am refusing to leave the technical aspect. Most of my colleagues have gone on to pure management positions. I have chosen to stay in the technical realm and I'm still actively coding. I am a senior architect. I do have direct reports, but I'm still heavily entrenched in tech and I want to stay there. Programming is like solving puzzles, and they say the best way to keep your brain healthy - especially as you get older - is to solve puzzles. I owe everything I know to DOS Debug - so whomever wrote that you are a god :D. I taught myself assembler with DOS Debug when I was 13 and that paved the road for my life goals.

this was awesome!

Great interview. Please thank Mr. Cutler for being so generous with his time and sharing his memories.

Windows 3x, Windows 98SE, WinNT, Win2k, Win XP, Win7, Win10, Win11. All great products. Those that are not mentioned, not so much. Also, this guy looks like he will live to a hundred years old.

I'm so glad I don't use Windows or any Microsoft product.