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Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:25:13 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: SCOUG-General: Connectix announcement

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> Peter wrote:
> > I've always been interested in
> > operating system design.

Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
> You have to say that in the plural: operating systems'
> design. The layered approach requires intimate
> knowledge of two operating systems' APIs: the host and
> the guest. The microkernel acts as a host supporting
> multiple guest OSes running concurrently. If there is
> an appealing operating system design, . . .

Semantics! My book title is "Operating System Design"; you merely
have various chapters.

> In my opinion O-O represents another example of the
> difference between clever and smart and why the
> result has lead us to work harder and not smarter.

I think I read somewhere that the guy who "invented" O-O now considers
it a mistake.

> All too often I appear as a soapbox orator. I just grow
> weary of those who would continue to complicate
> software development in the name of progress.

I wish I had the time to learn more programming languages. (May I call
them that without getting orated at?) For example, I'd like to
learn Ada so I could compare it to PL/I . . .

> Occam's Razor.

But I'm in Marketing!

- Peter

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