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- From: suresh@papaya.iss.nus.sg (Suresh Thennarangam - Research Scholar)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ Speed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.025124.6051@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:51:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.161017.16545@taumet.com> mike@taumet.com (Mike Ball) writes:
- >vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh) writes:
- >
- >>to me, the most complex piece of software is an OS; and so far
- >>i haven't seen a successful commercial OS written in C++.
- >
- >Most of which just shows inexperience. Operating systems are far from
- >the most complex software out there.
-
- I concur .. a a full-fledged RDBMS program like Oracle V6.0+ is far more
- complex than an OS like DOS( the world's most commercially successful and
- popular OS :->).
- >
- >Also, all successful commercial OS's were written decades ago, since it
- >takes that long to become a success.
- >--
- >Michael S. Ball (mike@taumet.com)
- >TauMetric Corporation
-
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