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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
 mandate, and why it collapsed and died))
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC)
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soft-eng wrote:
> 
> Btw, the architect of Win-32 is the same individual
> who architected VAX-VMS.  (Bill Gates doesn't sit down
> and design Windows himself, he hires good people.)
> That might be one of the reasons why Win-32 has always
> been relatively stable, and with almost a decade of
> use behind it, has achieved very decent quality levels.

What is you definition of stable? Win-32 has not had a good record of
stability at all.

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/