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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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> > I'm impressed.  If that's truly typical of Microsoft management.
> >
> > OTOH, somehow it hasn't stopped them from churning out garbage
> > year after year.
>
> It's fashionable to say that.
>
> But it is one thing to achieve quality control in a 50-100K
> LOC program for a limited userbase.  But if you have actually
> done that, you should be able to extrapolate to several
> million LOC programs that work in multiple languages and
> are literally used by millions of people in all sorts of
> un-anticipated ways.  Given the magnitude of the task,
> MS has indeed achieved great results.

My other principal usage experience is with Unix and
VAX-VMS.  I suggest that both of those systems are
considerably better than MS-Windows, qualitatively.
Moreover, they were of extremely high quality from very
early on in their life.  And you never had to double your
processor speed and memory size every two years to
keep up with the code bloat :-(