From: Terry Richards <trs AT idt DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: FreeWin95 Project
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:40:41 -0500
Organization: Terry Richards Software
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Todd A. Fiedler wrote:
:> 
:> > bugs that were known at the time of the latest Service Pack but
were
:> > not fixed by it.  The list numbers in the DOZENS, last time I
checked
:> > A similar list exists for NT 4.0.
:> >
:> > My GOD!!  DOZENS???  In a ten million line program (Win/95)?  HOW
:> > COULD THEY HAVE RELEASED SUCH CRAP!?
:> 
:> This idiot must not have to actually manage NT servers. We run a few
:> applications on our NT servers that cost us a lot of money when not
:> available. You might call them mission critical. If I installed the
NT
:> 4.0 service pack 2 on my servers (assuming I was dumb enough to
upgrade
:> to 4.0) and then my servers crapped out to that wonderful "blue
screen
:> of death", as MANY people experienced, I would probably NOT be a very
:> happy person. It is conceivable that I would be an UNEMPLOYED, not
very
:> happy person. So before you Microsoft slapheads start spouting about
a
:> dozen or so bugs NOT being a big deal, maybe you should have to stake
:> your livelihood on that code.

Anybody who runs apps *that* critical and doesn't try *any* upgrade on a
test machine first is on very shaky ground calling somebody else an
idiot. 

Terry Richards
Terry Richards Software