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Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:33:02 +0100
From: Tom Welsh <news@tom-welsh.co.uk>
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In article <uv2cnfY-WcxAjTajXTWcow@gbronline.com>, Wesley Groleau
<wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes
>
>You people are talking about two different things.
>There are TWO operating systems called Windows.
>
>Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / ME crashes daily for many users
>
>Windows NT / 2000 / XP is a completely different O.S.
>It still crashes, but it is reliable enough for most
>people.
>
That's because it is as close as they could get to VMS, under the
covers. 

It still crashes and hangs too much because the Windows GUI was a non-
negotiable legacy - which is probably harder to make reliable than a
conventional mainframe OS.

VMS used to be less than 10 million lines of code (C, Bliss, whatever).
DECwindows added another 5-7 million or so.

Windows 2000 is said to be in the region of 40 million LOC. If that's
true, I think it's an amazing accomplishment that it works at all. And
it is far more reliable than the older Windows variants.

But it still seems to me that much less reliable than VMS was 10-15
years ago. (And yes, that had a GUI too).
-- 
Tom Welsh