Yeah, OK a talented programmer. Yeah he was working on Basic. Whoopee!!! Then how is it that when this "talented programmer" gets into the position of chief architect that he hires David cutler, who was fired from DEC for incompetence, to architect NT? Then because the performance of NT 3.51 sucked so bad he hires people to cut the normal protections of a Multiprocessing OS out to create NT 4.00. He was having such a hard time with the debugging he gets Nathan Myrvold involved who promises to help get it degugged, which he does.
My point is that through this episode, he sneers at the almost 30 years of computing wisdom and in the process creates a piece of technological drek, which we are stuck with today as the majority OS on the planet. And you want me to acknowledge that man for being a wizard and a visionary?! Sorry No!!! On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Lewko wrote: > > Thank you for that acknowledgement. > > > > I would like to add that what also added to M$'s success was the > > incredibly inept marketing of others and the stupid UNIX wars of the mid > > 80's and early 90's. If Apple, Xerox and IBM had not been so steeped in > > the paradigm of the era (mainframes) and could have seen the > > consequences of hardware becoming cheaper by the day almost (commonly > > known as Moore's Law) then they may have been able to make something > > come of the technologies that they had in the 1980 period. > > Say what you will about MS, they are one of the few big tech companies > to have not made a fatal mistake. At least not yet. Anyone remember > the Wordstar wars? You know two competing products from the same > company that even had similar names. > > Anyone remember Borlund? > > <snip> > > > All the stuff about BG being some technological whiz and a visionary is > > bullshit!!! > > Actually BG was a talented programmer back in the day. He may not be an > industry prophet, and he may not play by the rules, but at least get the > history straight. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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