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an interesting post but you've gotten one thing exactly backwards which skews
your argument 180 degress
Win 98 doesn't have to "be compatable with thousands of different products,
hardware and software" THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT PRODUCTS , HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
HAVE TO BE MADE COMPATIBLE TO WIN 98.
kohath wrote:
> Computers, and computer software, are extremly complex. The reason there
> are so many incompatabilities between software programs and hardware. If
> WIn 98 is bad now, wait until there are 300 versions out there to choose
> from. Will this hardware work with this version, will this program work
> with this version. It's bad enough as it is, now. Ever hear of the rumor
> game, whereby a line is formed of 10 people, a rumor is whispered in the
> first persons ear, and see what the last person heard and compare it to the
> original. Software development, especially an OS as complex as Win 98, is a
> lot like that. When you have thousands of computer programers working on a
> product such as Win 98, each having their own idea of how something should
> be done, competition to get the biggest raise, (so my idea is better than
> yours, who cares if it makes the product better), a majority of the
> programmers having no business being programmers, you end up with a product
> that is full of bugs. Couple that with the fact that their are millions
> more programmers/wannabe programmers designing the software/hardware to
> complement the OS, and you have a recipe for disaster. Actually, I am
> suprised that Win95, 98, NT work, given the difficulties described above, as
> well as they do.
>
> The amount of hours spent in developing a product such as Win 98 is not
> measured in a few programmers working for a few weeks to put out the new
> operating system. There are probably millions of man hours invested in the
> development of Win 98. Comparing a program that displays your quotes on the
> computer for you like Windows on Wall Street or Trade Station to WIn 98 is
> like comparing the size of an Ant to an Elephant. There is no comparison,
> for all practical purposes. Win 98 must be compatable with thousands of
> different products, hardware and software. To expect all bugs to be removed
> from a software program that has 25+ million lines of code is rediculus. It
> will never happen, no matter how much time a company spends debbuging it's
> products. Actually, for the price of $90 for Win 98, that is cheap,
> compared to other monopolies out there. Take your quote service, you pay
> more than $90 each MONTH for quotes. And check out the price for TS or WOW.
> Neither of these programs is 100th the program Win98 is. Why the rediculus
> price. Those guys make BIll Gates look like a boy scout saving for his
> first bycicle. IMO they should be around $3 (for the quotes), to be fair to
> all, but, what's fair in the corporate world. Look at the automobiles,
> $30,000 for a new car? That's rediculus. How about %60 of your income
> every year to help fund the biggest monopoly of all time in U.S. History?
>
> .
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brent <brente@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Real Traders Forum <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Earl Adamy
> <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: GEN: MS/JUSTICE DEPT RULING?
>
> > This is a very complicated issue. Some have said that a breakup of big M
> > would hurt the whole US economy. They said the same about other companies
> > though.
> >
> > I just have a few thoughts (questions) about this puzzle. Why hasn't there
> > been any other OS come along to do battle with big M? Say a company in the
> > far east wanted to compete. Couldn't they make a knock off OS and sell it
> > for $49.95 (cheaper) just like they did with cars, TV's, video
> recorders...
> > etc? Why didn't Apple, IBM, Xerox, etc. wake up in time?
> >
> > That's about it.
> >
> > Brent
> >
> >
> >
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