From:	James Dening james@************.force9.co.uk
Subject:	The Negative Programming Time Problem
Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:52:12 +0100

>>If you handed off Windows98 to the open source crowd I'd
>>bet cash they could do the whole thing in under 10 mb and run it faster on a
>>286 than the current version runs on a pentium. Without losing functionality.

Interestingly enough, I'm just finished writing a <legal disclaimer - if you're from
microsoft, ignore this> version of Win95 for an embedded platform, and it was
a bastard to write. Now I see why it's so big and slow - it's a fundamental problem
of a message-based architecture. So, I'd take you bet, and, IMO, your money...

Anyway, back to Shadowrun (hint) - anyone got any stats for a Limousine - light armour,
no weapons, preferably around 100KnYen?

J.