Editing Dave Cutler (section)

=== VMS ===

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In April 1975, DEC began a hardware project, code-named '''Star''', to design a 32-bit virtual address extension to its [[PDP-11]]. In June 1975, Cutler, together with [[Dick Hustvedt]] and Peter Lipman, were appointed the technical project leaders for the software project, code-named '''Starlet''', to develop a totally new operating system for the Star family of processors. These two projects were tightly integrated from the beginning.

The three technical leaders of the Starlet project together with three technical leaders of the Star project formed the "Blue Ribbon Committee" at DEC that produced the fifth design evolution for the programs. The design featured simplifications to the memory management and process scheduling schemes of the earlier proposals and the architecture was accepted. The Star and Starlet projects culminated in the development of the [[VAX-11/780]] superminicomputer and the VAX/VMS operating system, respectively.