Re: A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:11:52 +0000, Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:




John Larkin wrote:

http://blogs.intel.com/research/2008/06/unwelcome_advice.php

"...My desktop has 1,095 active threads under Vista at this
moment. It took Microsoft more labor to build Vista to manage
those threads than the Apollo moon project required."

You might be interested in my comments about the engineering
behind the Apollo moon project. It's at

HTTP://WWW.GUYMACON.COM/ENGINEER/HISTORY/INDEX.HTM

(Scroll down part the sections on Thomas Edison and
WWII Liberty Ships).

Yes, that claim was silly. It cost about $150 million to write NT as
of its first public release. I can't imagine that Vista cost more than
a billion or so.

John

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