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> My biggest concern here has been the stability of the kernel.  While the
> beta kernel looks good, you really don't know how well it works.  Before
> somebody posts something about how it is a microkernel and thus small and
> easy to write well, let me point out that both NeXT and OSF spend a huge
> amount of time testing and debugging the Mach microkernel.  From what I
> understand, the Mach kernel is now very stable but if it took time and
> people using in commercial situtations before all the bugs were found and
> taken out.

Yeah, but compared to the number of people who develop for Microsoft
OSes, the number of Mach developers is insignificant.  If Microsoft
can get a significant fraction of their developers to participate in
an NT beta, they should be able to get kernel stability before a general
release with no problem (assuming that any lack of kernel stability is
due to implementation bugs rather than design flaws).

They can do what Apple did with System 7 for the Mac.  Apple made sure
that alphas and betas of System 7 where widespread in the developer
community.  They had many thousands of qualified alpha and beta testers.

A system like Mach is not going to get this kind of testing until it
gets released.

--Tim Smith