15 Mar
1999
15 Mar
'99
4:33 p.m.
On 15 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
The actual operating system deep in the bowels of
Windows NT isn't so
bad. But they have lventy-seven layers of crap on top of it to keep
you from seing anything that might be simple and elegant.
Of course, the kernel can't be blamed for much of anything. I'm sure that
if Microsoft got its hands on VMS source code, they would mess it up,
while if DEC got its hands on NT source code, they would make something
wonderful out of it...
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)