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To: JC Jaros who wrote (28516)	3/3/2000 4:38:00 PM
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From: microsoft.com Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and two Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when an idea occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space by storing duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed in a central location? Boy, what a level of ignorance. Unix has had symbolic links forever, and hard-links too. I guess we'll have to wait for W2k++ before we see the hard variety. I can't believe that they did the following: The three sent a memo to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates outlining the idea. Both Gates and the Windows 2000 product team liked the proposal, and the Windows team asked Bolosky if he could develop the feature himself. During the next 1-1/2 years, Bolosky, a researcher in Microsoft Research?s Systems and Networking Group, and three of his researchers worked full time with the Windows 2000 team to build the technology, now known as the Single Instance Store. What a joke. I think I'll apply for position of Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. They obviously need some people with some connection to reality. No wonder it took them 25,000 Man Years to get the sucker out. Money well spent eh twister. P.

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