Bill Gates was literally losing sleep over Java
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In his defense software engineering did not exist in any significant form until long after he was established.
@mik said in Bill Gates was literally losing sleep over Java:
In his defense software engineering did not exist in any significant form until long after he was established.
https://www.scrummanager.net/files/nato1968e.pdfI'd argue that, from a modern SE perspective, Thompson and Ritchie did a far better job with Unix in the 1970s.
What Gates did right, and what Bell Labs et al underestimated: He made an operating system that worked on small, cheap computers (MS-DOS) and he had the right timing for graphical user interfaces (Windows 3/3.1). But the architecture of these operating systems has always been a big mess.
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