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The only example here given of the powers of these superprogrammers, is that they have banded together to make an OS that’s technically impressive, but gets no
by schrijver 14y ago
The only example here given of the powers of these superprogrammers, is that they have banded together to make an OS that’s technically impressive, but gets no traction in the marketplace and ends up all but forgotten (PC/GEOS)? Not very enticing…
- vadman 14y agoThe article had the bit about Microsoft shutting them out of the market. In any case, superprogrammers != super marketplace conquerors, and IMO should not be judged as (un)impressive on that metric.
- droithomme 14y agoHave you written a lot of operating systems yourself then?
- pacaro 14y agoHaving written both application and system code for PC/GEOS, it never appeared to have been written by 10Xers. For the record I've worked with EPOC-32, Windows, NextStep, Linux, VxWorks, and Nucleus - none of them was as painful as PC/GEOS (although EPOC-32 sometimes came close...)