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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 11:51:10 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) of 74651

"Windows will never be as good a timesharing system as Unix because there is no reason for it to develop such capabilities. Hardware is still riding Moore's law and processors continue to get ever cheaper and more plentiful. In such an environment to focus on a timesharing model would be a poor business decision on MSFT's part." Your analogy with cellular phones is wrong, and above you are expressing the "One user"/"One CPU"/"One task" MSDOS mentality. And your understanding of "timesharing" is incorrect too. In the 21-century personal CPUs can do much more work than sitting and waiting for you to press a key on your keyboard, or waiting for a synchro pulse to format a floppy. There are plenty of resources to share - printers, scanners, CD burners, MP3/DVD playbacks, home automation/security, storage maintenance, websurfing. Proper timesharing is the only reasonable way to share resources and sustain data streams. Windows seem to be catching with this, but too slowly and awkwardly. "Windows has its roots in the networked PC world" You must be joking. Windows has its inexcavable roots in DOS.

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