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To: limtex who wrote (16674)	2/23/1999 4:59:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (2) of 74651

And I forgot to mention one thing: you do get pay alot if you know how to write good UNIX program. Don't know why, but seems like a lot of UNIX programming job out there :) So there must be a market for them. Personally, I won't pay you a lot if you only know one platform, be that UNIX or Windows. With a code base of 60million lines of source code, Windows 2K is still got a long way to get to 64 bit, reliable, good clustering support. I don't see W2K taking over the world in its inception. When it ships, it will be the single most complicated software in history. And how do you extend those mission critical features on this gigantic code base without introducing a lot of additional bugs? My software engineering class says that's not very likely. It's not about spending extra bucks to hire the best programmers in the world to fix it, money don't matter in this case. It's about how extendible their original kernel is. Frankly, when I saw Gates stick with a 32bit kernel for W2K, I knew it would be a mistake. At the time, HP UX is rolling out a 64 bit architecture. And that was back in 1994. How can you have a product that goes out in 99-2000 be a 32 bit architecture, when you know the hardware will be 64 bit? It just beats me how Gates fumbled this.

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