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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
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In-Reply-To: <096c01c10b8a$df669940$c0b7c6d4@SOMA>; from Boyd Roberts on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:59:21PM +0200
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:11:52 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:59:21PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> > I'm sure most of Microsoft's bad decisions were mandated by time to
> > market.
>
> no.  the core architecture is so flawed and the API so gross
> that it had to be sheer bad design.
>
Bad and design?

No more than from Intel (they are to be blamed for CP/M, too),
overlooking the fact that their address bus was wider than the
register size, or scrapping the i860/i960 developments.

They are rushed decisions that can't be reversed.  Everything that
complex needs slow evolution, not cancerous growth.  At the moment
there's still enough nutrient...

++L