[nycphp-talk] [Fwd: [nylug-talk] Disturbing news]
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.
>
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