Re: [plug] [WAY OT] What Computer skills should a highschoolgraduatehave?

[Daniel O. Escasa]

Sabi ni Orly noong Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:32:44 +0800 (PHT)

> That's true. In fact the lead WinNT architect (Dave Winer) was also the
> lead designer of VMS.

Isn't that Dave *Cutler*?

> If you look at it, NT is a very nice OS. Many important performance tweaks
> first came out on NT -- completion ports, interrupt-to-processor binding,
> kernel-level daemons.
> 
> But.. the execution has been kind of lacking. Nice ideas, poor
> implementation.

If I recall correctly, Linus himself acknowledged the good design of NT/2K and
bewailed the poor implementation. Wonder where Microsoft went wrong?

Mabuhay.

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