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Kirk Glerum's avatar

The Usenet postings at the bottom of the BillG memo are terrific. I loved reading those at the time, the industry speculation about DOS/OS2/Windows/NT. So many keystrokes, so much bloviating and prediction and posturing.

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Prady Misra's avatar

"The management part was an add-on. There was no such thing as a manager who didn’t also code. " : IMO this was one of the great strengths of Microsoft at least early on. As a "manager" you had firm understanding of the design and architecture and the schedule, As company grew larger and "management" required more time and focus it created several challenges and problems. I'm hoping you'd get to those later in your posts.

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