Jerry Baker wrote:
>
> Gavin Long wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, 3 years? IIRC, the mozilla project is about 2.5
> > years old, isn't it?
>
> I believe the original source code was released on March 31, 1998 or
> thereabouts. The decision was made to switch to nglayout about 6 months
> later or so. So, the project is just about three years old, this
> specific code base is about 2 and a half.
>
> Some people see that Microsoft has been aboe to release 4 new operating
> system versions since the initial release of source code for the Mozilla
> Project and without knowing the fiscal disparities wonder how it is that
> it takes longer to write one browser version than 4 operating systems.
Well, actually if you think about it they didn't write 4 new operating systems.
98 was an upgrade of 95, SE was just an update on 98, and ME is just an upgrade
of that. Sorta like they made 98, 98.1, 98.2 and 98.3. if the 4th you speak of
is Win 2k then I would say that's pretty good, as i hear only about 15-20% of
the code was borrowed from NT 4
