Re: [OM] Another Fine Mess

[Chris Trask]

>
> > Simply my true view of the computer and software world
> > after having spent 30 years in both application and
> > system software development.  "Incompetence" is probably
> > too severe since what I really mean is that the complexity
> > of the things we build are beyond our ability to completely
> > understand them.
> >
>
> It may be old age pickling my brain but I seem to recall that
> Microsoft said they didn't feel Windows xxx (I forget which
> version, probably 95 or 98) was ready to be released until
> there were only 28000 known bugs left... Out of the millions
> of lines of code it's a tiny defect rate.  And don't imagine
> that Apple are any better!
>

     I really miss DOS 6.2 and Telnet.


Chris
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