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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (46750)	6/15/2000 2:12:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: QEMM, where do you think MS got Win 3.x memory management from? I happen to know the person who wrote the Windows memory management system, so yes, I'm sure they came up with it themselves. I also happen to have written a 386 memory manager myself from scratch, so I don't really consider it an impossible feat. Why don't you focus on more productive things than trying to prove Microsoft is an evil company filled with sub-par engineers? If you really want Sun to do well, why not just focus on what makes them so good? You might be happier as a result. Your approach reminds me of people who have to put others down so they won't feel so bad about themselves. Good luck, Mike

To: JC Jaros who wrote (46750)	6/15/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: " Information is the enemy though, isn't it mozek? -JCJ" Only in poker! And business sometimes. But who would expect a N.O.I.S.E. maker to understand that? TTOSBT

To: JC Jaros who wrote (46750)	6/15/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Publish full documentation... As a developer at Microsoft for years, I can tell you that they have no internal documentation that the whole world doesn't have. The theory about secret APIs is bogus.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (46750)	6/15/2000 3:53:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 74651

--Re: QEMM, where do you think MS got Win 3.x memory management from?-- i don't believe msft ever purchased quarterdeck/qemm but if memory serves the last 'popular' version of desqview and win3.1 were both written to the DPMI .9 specification. i vaguely remember a later version of desqview which supported dpmi 1.0 or something but it was too late to have an impact in light of windows' market penetration. so why did ibm do what appeared to be a 'suicide' wrt to OS/2? they had a great product available about a full year before win95 came out and they proceeded to 'screw the pooch' really badly. as for where msft got win3.x memory management wrt qemm, well a determined developer from india sat in an office every day during the dos 5 development cycle and wrote the first reliable emm386.exe driver. although quarterdeck's people may have been bitter about a lot of what happened, at least they were able to change with the times and get into new and exciting businesses. i don't see them whining to the doj. andy