RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mach 3 software source

Very minor nit -- below

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> From: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon Elson
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 20:49
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mach 3 software source
>
> jeremy youngs wrote:
> > gary do you have any experience with mach support? have you
> any experience
> > with lcnc support? just asking
> >
> I've been an EMC(xx) user since 1998, and have had great luck
> with it.
> Back in the
> beginning, you needed a TRUE guru, like the creators of the
> program at NIST,
> to get it running. Since then, it has gotten easier in steps, and is
> now VERY easy
> to install, and runs on most hardware. There have been problems with
> certain
> graphics cards and some other areas. Microsoft has 50,000
> employees just
> dealing with making Windows run on the widest array of
> hardware, and so
> Linux will always lag a little behind on that score. We do
> have a list

Fourteen years ago, I finished a five year run at MSFT -- my employee number
was in the 52K range. They run sequentially so there are a lot of 'retired'
numbers - mine included.

MSFT may well have 52K employees now but this is the entire organization.
Development, software test labs (my gig was a lab manager for one of these
-- hardware and networking only), localization (language translation),
software testing (at my lab and others), software build labs (they would
compile everything submitted for a specific product and provide that next
days Dogfood that we were supposed to load and use and report on), basic
research, applied research, coordinating with major buyers, accounting, HR,
management, graphic design, media production (they have a world-class
recording studio), advertising, etc. etc. etc. When I was there, services
(food, janitorial, moving, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, etc.) was outsourced
-- I suspect it still is.

The number of people actually involved in bug fixing is a percent or two of
the 52,000 - I would guess 20 to 50 for Win7 and Win8 and maybe another 10
for legacy Windows with another 100 for applications (Office, Visual Studio,
etc...) These people are on the hook 24/8 (Beetle weeks) and are paid very
very well.

Dave