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Jeff Siegel jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Fri Jan 23 08:35:00 EST 2004


Definite improvement...until I have Dreamweaver, Fireworks, ACT, and 
Word open all at the same time.

Jeff

Tim Gales wrote:

> Jeff Siegel writes:
> " I can easily imagine someone opening a gazillion apps in each desktop 
>  and then the whole house of cards comes to a crash."
> 
> Well Microsoft operating systems tend not to 'lock up' 
> the way they used to after David Cutler was employed to 
> work on NT.
> 
> See:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.htm
> l
> 
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
> 
> I always would recommend to junior programmers working on 'VMS' 
> projects to check the historical timelines of VMS and 
> Unix before continuing to complain that they wanted to work on 
> 'newer' operating systems like Unix.
> (in point of fact VMS is newer and for my money fixed things
> which could be characterized as 'occasionally problematic' in
> Unix)
> 
> Once a week I light a candle for the WMS on the Itanium chip 
> project at HP and hope everyone will come to their senses.
> 
> T. Gales & Associates
> 'Helping People Connect with Technology'
> 
> http://www.tgaconnect.com
> 
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