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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 07:04:20 MDT
- From: earlyd@ee.byu.edu (David Early)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
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- References: <BrCzq0.ADz@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Jul14.135842.19776@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: Re: Can IBM write code?
- Keywords: IBM
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- In article <1992Jul14.135842.19776@engage.pko.dec.com>, eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) writes:
- >
- > > I dearly hope that you do not use the same method to judge people as you
- > > do operating systems. Do you decide whether a person is worthy of respect
- > > based on the number of people you have met from their country of origin?
- >
- > No, but I wouldn't hire a hardware engineer to write a next generation operating
- > system that I will use for mission-critical applications. Nor would I hire a
- > COBOL or PL/I hacker to write such an operating system.
- >
- > > IBM, in the PC market, has never been a large application supplier.
- > > I don't know if they ever will be. But who cares? OS/2 is slick, slick,
- > > slick.
- >
- > Remember that MS wrote a large portion of OS/2. How do we know IBM has the
- > capability to keep it running? Just because Dan Quayle is in the White House
- > doesn't mean he can run the presidency if Bush resigns.
- >
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- Oh, come on!!
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- You can't seriously imply that after almost 4 yours of independent work on OS/2 that IBM is doesn't
- have the 'capability' to keep OS/2 running????!????
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- And as far as the 'large' part that MS wrote, they wrote ~60% of the 1.0, but how much of
- that code is left in 2.0??? Knowledgable answers to THAT question might prevent bad, uninformed
- rummors from forming.
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- Dave Early
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