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In article <62666@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) wrote:
> 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. 
> 

However, the alpha/beta testing is going to be for < 6 months.  IMHO, this
is not enough time to find/fix the bugs AND make sure the fixes don't
introduce new bugs.  Also, vendors will be running few apps on the kernel
at a time.  The real problems with the kernel will come out when multiple
applications start interacting together.  You won't see this happening
until NT goes into production.

> 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.

I will still stick with my statement that the stability of the kernel
should be an area of concern.  While they may catch some bugs, I would be
very surprised if they still have a fair number of then lurking around.  An
operating system kernel is probably the most difficult piece of software to
write and the only way to get it stable is to give it time to mature, just
like fine wines! ;-) 

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