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- From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Win NT Dev, Conf. Report'
- Message-ID: <62666@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 09:20:19 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <06!m_td.rcain@netcom.com> <62521@cup.portal.com>
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- > > Yeah, but compared to the number of people who develop for Microsoft
- > > OSes, the number of Mach developers is insignificant. If Microsoft
- >
- > Excuse me??? Please get your facts straight.
- >
- > Mach has been worked on by a large number of researchers world-wide as well
- > as people at NeXT and companies associated with OSF. Granted NeXT doesn't
-
- Yes, but this large number is a small number compared to the number of people
- Microsoft can get. Microsoft is *HUGE*. Every company working on Windows
- software is a potential alpha and/or beta site for them. Heck, every
- company working on DOS software is one, too. With the low price of the
- pre-release, they could easily end up with 10,000 or more programmers
- testing NT.
-
- This should let them get kernel stability (which was what this was originally
- about). Sure, there will be bugs in the first NT release, but I would expect
- them to be relatively minor, rather than things that can crash the kernel.
-
- --Tim Smith
-