From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:48:14 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>Vista will sell like crazy, and the only thing it needs to really have ready
>and working is all the visual gimmicks. All the rest, MS has years to stitch
>that together.

Definitely a first release to stear clear of on production machines unless
it proves to be solid once released.  I'll await the Barktopus reviews,
especially Geo's. 

>And no, I don't like the Vista shit much, I'm just saying that the Dvorak
>comment was just plain stupid.

It might sound good but there is no reason MS is gonna hire him as the CTO. 

>Well, it's fairly common (in my experience) to use threads in a way that
>assumes things, and dual core can do funny tricks to that. A surpriginly
>large number of programmers seems to not understand threading very well, and
>do all sorts of clever tricks to overcome race conditions and so on, and
>these can very easily backfire with dual cores when the threads can really
>be executed simultaneosly instead of just sliced inside one core.

I understand it can be difficult to do, but at least in Autodesk's case
they did threading (not sure about multiprocessing) for OS/2, what, 10 - 15
years ago.  Maybe they all went to work for Goggle.

Back to working on my AutoCAD 2007 rollout....

- Richard

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