Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:40

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In <nevin-1008950420370001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

>In article <40b1qq$suu@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
>wrote:
>
>> Can you just imagine if this had occurred with nt?
>
>Microsoft would rush to get a fix out.  Since they are constantly working
>on the OS, they have the talent concentrated in one place.  Unlike the
>free software crowd, they do have something tangible to lose (their
>market, which they do care about having) if they don't fix the problem.

Yeah, like they fixed MSDOS in the 14 years since its initial release.
It's as vulnerable to viruses today as it was in day one.  And still
limited to 640k of RAM.

MS have the market.  They couldn't care less about excellence or deadlines.

Dan
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