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Far easier to build a 747 jumbo jet than to design an OS that is completly
compatable with all software/hardware on the market. Far easier. Far
easier to build the Shuttle spacecraft. If the shuttle were built with the
number of programmers that build software/hardware today, the thing would
rarely, if ever, make it into outer space. Gates cannot watch over
everyones shoulder that codes/builds software/hardware. The
designers/builders of the shutlle can. You said it all when you said you
are no expert on computers. You obviously don't have the foggiest as to
what goes into making that computer you are using work. The majority of
computer users fit this bill. And I am sure that you would not care to pay
the price of a shuttle for an operating system that is bug free!
Before someone goes off not understanding what is being said here, the space
shuttle is also an extremly complex peice of machinery, the difference is,
the controls are there to make sure everything is working properly, and,
since the money being used is not theirs, and is limitless, money is of no
concern, therefore designing and building a shuttle almost bug free is
possible. "Yes, I did say Almost". Software design/coding/testing/releasing
is a tradeoff between time, price, and demand, and capability! If MS were
to work on the OS until all the bugs were out, we would never again see
another release of windows, given the millions of programmers out there who
build software to complement Windows.
There will never be a completly bug free OS, it's impossible, unless that OS
is so stripped down as to be practically useless. It is all a matter of
mathematics. Ever hear of the traveling salesman algorythm, whereby a
computer tries to determine all the different paths a salesman could take in
his daily travel, then compute the result. Or how about the algorythm to
determine which of the millions of different chess moves should be made.
Given 2 lines of code you have 1 + 1 lines of code to check for
compatability. Given 3 lines of code you have 3 + 2 + 1 lines of code to
check for compatability. As we move up to 50+ million lines of code, you
can begin to see the enormity of what you are asking for when you say you
want/expect a bug free OS for $90.
As, I hope, you can now see, it is not a big excuse, just a fact, that to
build a completly bug free OS with the capabilities of Win 95, 98, NT, is,
for all practical purposes, impossible.
Kohath
----- Original Message -----
From: Brent <brente@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Real Traders Forum <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; kohath
<kohath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: GEN: MS/JUSTICE DEPT RULING?
> Although I'm kind of neutral about the case against big M. I have had
reason
> not to be happy with Microsoft, but I use their products. I am no expert
on
> computers but this sounds like a big excuse. Good management is what makes
> it possible to do all of this, it's just a matter of prioritizing. Was it
> less complicated to build jet aircraft? This industry is still very young
> but when things don't make sense it's time to ask questions.
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