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1. bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 10:04:04 JST bs2

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   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   > #Marketing prevails over #engineering
   > Even though its roots go back to the 1970's, the #Windows NT product line is a big improvement over Microsoft's DOS-based products. Unfortunately that doesn't automatically mean that it's a well-designed operating system.

   Hearing of #OnBullshit, and the difference between #Bullshit and #Lies, gave me a coherent framework to help understand business success...
   /HT @lightweight

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 10:04:06 JST bs2

     > the BASIC that Gates sold.. had been developed.. on a Harvard PDP-10, using an 8080-emulation program.. adapted from earlier code..The demonstration... was the first time [it].. ran on the system it was intended for. #Gates sold it by announcing a product that didn't exist, developing it on the model of the best version available elsewhere, not testing it very seriously, demonstrating an edition that didn't fully work this modus operandi became #Microsoft's trademark.
     https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.