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I believe what you actually need is to hire 2-3 teams of 10x developers/artists including a few visionaires and let them figure out projects that might one day

by bitL 10y ago

I believe what you actually need is to hire 2-3 teams of 10x developers/artists including a few visionaires and let them figure out projects that might one day become cash cows keeping company afloat (and give them massive stake in success). You need to both expose them to problems of the company so that they feel pressure as well as completely isolate them from toxic culture that brought down your company, so that they can give an all-out effort. Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
I think that's easier said than done when a company is going down, as we've witnessed through Yahoo. That's exactly what she tried to do by hiring bunch of startups but failed, probably because the board became impatient. I know people criticize her saying she did a half assed job of dealing with acquired companies but I'll bet that it's not entirely because of her decisions but because of lack of support from the board.
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sluukkonen 10y ago
> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now. I haven't heard this story before. Got a link?
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- estebank 10y ago
  Google turned this up: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-windows-from-the-os2-bulldozer/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-w...
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- f393921 10y ago
  I believe this is it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/faster-syscall-trap-redux/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/fa... The IBM way required IBM BIOS and an absurdly long time (as I recalled it was hundreds of milliseconds, not just milliseconds) to re-enter real mode. The motivation was to be able to run DOS real-mode programs as well as protected mode programs.
woliveirajr 10y ago
Was OS/2 bad? :-|
- jessaustin 10y ago
  Everybody I knew who used it said it was better than Windows, but that's sort of a self-selecting crowd. More to the point, OS/2 wasn't a M$ product, so that sort of success for it would have been bad for M$.
  - yuhong 10y ago
    It was a MS product (even the early OS/2 2.0 SDKs from the 1990 period). The entire OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics, partly because of how horrible and unethical it was.
    - woliveirajr 10y ago
      Could you point some reading about it?
      - yuhong 10y ago
        One of my favorite readings is http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00307.pdf http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011.... Notice that they did not mention the problems with the "32-bit Windows extenders" for example. On the later attacks, look up "Microsoft Munchkins" and "Steve Barkto" for one example of them.

by bitL 10y ago

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago

I think that's easier said than done when a company is going down, as we've witnessed through Yahoo. That's exactly what she tried to do by hiring bunch of startups but failed, probably because the board became impatient. I know people criticize her saying she did a half assed job of dealing with acquired companies but I'll bet that it's not entirely because of her decisions but because of lack of support from the board.

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sluukkonen 10y ago

> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now. I haven't heard this story before. Got a link?

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estebank 10y ago
Google turned this up: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-windows-from-the-os2-bulldozer/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-w...
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f393921 10y ago
I believe this is it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/faster-syscall-trap-redux/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/fa... The IBM way required IBM BIOS and an absurdly long time (as I recalled it was hundreds of milliseconds, not just milliseconds) to re-enter real mode. The motivation was to be able to run DOS real-mode programs as well as protected mode programs.

woliveirajr 10y ago

Was OS/2 bad? :-|

jessaustin 10y ago
Everybody I knew who used it said it was better than Windows, but that's sort of a self-selecting crowd. More to the point, OS/2 wasn't a M$ product, so that sort of success for it would have been bad for M$.
- yuhong 10y ago
  It was a MS product (even the early OS/2 2.0 SDKs from the 1990 period). The entire OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics, partly because of how horrible and unethical it was.
  - woliveirajr 10y ago
    Could you point some reading about it?
    - yuhong 10y ago
      One of my favorite readings is http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00307.pdf http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011.... Notice that they did not mention the problems with the "32-bit Windows extenders" for example. On the later attacks, look up "Microsoft Munchkins" and "Steve Barkto" for one example of them.