From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/19
Date: 2000-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38ae066c@eeyore.callnetuk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1e66z6d.1a9fzdvtbw6t2N%herwin@gmu.edu
I would suggest that a bug figure for an overall operating system is not
very meaningful. How many of those bugs apply to critical code? How many to
totally unimportant code (e.g. games)?
The total number of lines of code may actually be a much more meaningful
statistic than the number of putative bugs, when it comes to evaluating the
reliability of Windows 2000 (or parts thereof). If the figures indicate
serious 'bloat', this indicates poorly programmed software at a fundamental
level.
In fact, the citation of Windows 2000 being written in 30-40 million lines
of code raises a further question in my mind: which programming languages
does this figure cover, and in what proportions?
--
Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos
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2000-02-15 0:00 Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <RUkq4.1243$dw3.69085@news.wenet.net>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Dang! (was Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <150220001931201946%emery@grebyn.com>
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Dale Pontius
[not found] ` <1e66z6d.1a9fzdvtbw6t2N%herwin@gmu.edu>
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-02-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-03-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <38A9C619.790950B0@quadruscorp.com>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Windows TP (Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Vladimir Olensky
[not found] ` <38A9C4ED.C75316F9@raytheon.com>
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Samuel T. Harris
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