From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:53:18 -0500 Organization: Nortel Networks Lines: 19 Message-ID: <38AD870E.160848FC@americasm01.nt.com> References: <88e3p7$igj$1 AT spruce DOT ukc DOT ac DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: wmerh0tk.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Damian Yerrick wrote: > How many of the 63k known bugs in Win2k does this involve? > (Microsoft has committed itself to fixing half of them ASAP.) Just because they SAY they'll fix them, doesn't mean they will. I would be very surprised if they fix even 10% of them. They know it'll sell even with the bugs, so what's their modivation? > I heard BeOS (is not UNIX) boots in 20 seconds... I remember the days of DOS 6, which could boot in < 0.5 seconds. (Issue "int 0x19" and you'd have a prompt back in less than a second). -- (\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)