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

To: rudedog who wrote (12062)	11/5/1998 8:57:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You didnt read my response correctly Rude - did you. The question I asked Keithsha is "exactly how many of the 45+ million lines of code does MSFT consider to be the microkernel?" I didnt say that all of the 45+ lines of code were the kernel. So let me understand this, MSFT could have made a substantially more efficient NOS than the bloated under-performing versions they currently have or will have someday but for the interests of the consumer they had to fatten it up and make it a resource pig? Was this to satisfy the PC hardware OEMs and encourage them to sell NT solutions because they knew there would be more sales in it for them? After all even Gartner Group stated that the performance ratio is 4-5 NT servers for every NetWare server. "Will be available"? When? For who? LOL - your next statement is quite humourous! "It is possible to build a version of NT which provides not only all of the base OS and connectivity functionality but also NOS and application support, which boots in less than 10MB and runs comfortably in less than 16MB." If it were possible, would you not think that they would have done it. BTY way, it is possible, its called NW3.X. In fact one can operate NW4 in 16MB of RAM right now. So dont tell me what might possibly be possible in NT if I were to dream a little dream (a very common practice among MSFTers), Novell has software on the shelf RIGHT NOW that can do what your NT could never think of doing and is only a "possible" dream. Sorry Rude, but I had to go on the defensive there. Toy