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                               Microsoft rethink
                                        
> Our computers are big and powerful now, and at AAAS I came to the
> conclusion that Moore's First Law has about 50 years to run, while there
> are ways to circumvent Moore's Second Law (this will be in my reports).
> That argues enough computer power to make anything run fast. The cycles and
> memory will be out there. Perhaps it is time to START OVER with OS. Heck,
> I'd like to see Niklaus Wirth's Oberon and Modula 2 come back. I would even
> be interested in an OS that was written in and ran ADA as its assembly
> language. We are no longer constrained by memory and and cycles limits. I
> think it is time to break free from not only Microsoft but unintelligible
> code like C (which means we break free of LINUX and the other UNIX type
> systems too).
> 

Jerry Pournelle on Microsoft and Linux [1]

The page will move in a few days, so if the above link doesn't work, try this
one. [2]

Wow. I really didn't expect Jerry Pournelle [3] to come out and say this,
seeing how he tends to get personal tech support from CEOs [4] and is an
active Microsoft supporter. The times, they are a'changing.

[1] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/currentview.html#Friday
[2] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view141.html#Friday
[3] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
[4] http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/95q1/jpreviews.html

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