Re: Win NT Dev, Conf. Report'

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From: Tim W Smith
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:20

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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

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