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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: Portable?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.175317.26771@microsoft.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:53:17 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul23.041926.5955@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.041926.5955@news.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
- >
- >So? In case you missed the earlier part of this thread, it all started when
- >the implication was made that NT is less buggy than OS/2, because NT was
- >coded in C, whereas portions of OS/2 were translated by hand from assembly
- >to C.
-
- You must have missed the earlier part of this thread. I started
- it. It had nothing to do with Windows NT. Nothing.
-
- This whole thread was started in response to the periodic postings
- of "when Portable OS/2 comes out." I questioned that, and asserted
- that IBM would be introducing new bugs into the code when they did
- the translation. End of story.
-
-
- >[text about something or other deleted]
- >Stop spreading FUD, and stop trying to conceal it by going off on tangents.
-
- It's not FUD - it's a fact of life. If Microsoft was doing the
- same translation, they would likely introduce just as many new bugs.
-
-
- >If Microsoft can deliver a product with fewer bugs in less time, more power
- >to them. But if their programming is as bad as their probability statistics...
-
- Actually, the probability statistics were posted by a non-MS
- employee. Have you been reading this thread at all?
-
- -Phil
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