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echo: quik_bas
to: CHRIS GUNN
from: DAVID WILLIAMS
date: 1998-04-08 08:46:00
subject: Re: Multiple eofs

-> There are still some identifiable CP/M bugs in MS-DOS 7.0.  Now we're
-> stuck and nobody at MicroSoft knows how the guts of DOS works well
-> enough to fix it.
Ain't that the way! I wonder if, maybe in 50 years or so, the entire
basis of computing will be locked in by this kind of incomprehension.
Then nothing will change except by random errors, something like
biological mutations. Programming will give way to evolution.
Maybe this would make a good sci-fi story!
                           dow
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