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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59893)	7/16/2001 1:55:16 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Bill, I think you overestimate just how modular Windows is. If it were nearly as well engineered as you think, it would have been possible for Microsoft to remove the last vestiges of DOS from Windows years ago. This DOS dependency may have been deliberately welded intractably into Windows in order to crush DRDOS, I don't know, but for whatever reason, Microsoft has taken incredibly long, and spent incredible amounts of money, in trying to simply remove DOS from Windows. And it's still not done. Dave

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59893)	7/16/2001 6:05:40 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Spaghetti code is normally used when small modifications to the code have a high risc of introducing errors at other places. It is true that the order of risc has been reduced a lot in the past decades, but there is typically a higher risc in integrated systems than in loose-coupled systems. This means that unless the integrated system is made with care, the term "spaghetti code" is still highly relevant. Lars.

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59893)	7/17/2001 7:28:31 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

>This is especially true in the Unix world since the often hairsplitting differences that separate the various proprietary flavors of Unix serve mainly to enhance vendor margins more than anything else. Right on the money :-) and McSquealy, can't delay forever the onslaught of inexpensive wintel servers knocking the cr@p out of SUNW's bloated margins. I'll bet Scotty boy is on the phone every day, begging the EU regulators, DOJ, AG's, etc., to save SUNW from the competition. Even Oracle prefers the Wintel OEMs to Sun now.