OT--HAPPY THANKSGIVING--Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mach 3 software source

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:57:14 -0600, Jon Elson wrote

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>
> Dave Halliday wrote:
> > Very minor nit -- below
> >
> > 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.
> >
> OK, I don't consider making the OS run on a wide variety of hardware bug
> fixing.
> And, I have no idea how many people are involved in that kind of driver
> support,
> but at least at one time I was aware that the Taiwan video board makers were
> changing the combination of video chip, memory, RAMDACs every two weeks,
> and it must have driven MS people insane to keep track and test against
> all that
> variation. Maybe that hardware variability has settled down (I hope so!).
>
> Jon
>
>

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