Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right?
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Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who’s been running Microsoft Research for 17 years. He coined the term NUMA – non-uniform memory access for handling cache in multi-processor systems – and popularized the idea of a microkernel OS.
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Rashid also started the DirectX team and the Windows Media team. Oh, and about 20 years ago when he was at Carnegie Mellon University he wrote the Mach operating system that Apple uses as the basis of Mac OS and the iPhone.

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