The Origin of Windows, by the product manager who shipped Windows 1.0 (2010)

[sengork]

http://www.technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-of-windows/

[melling]

30 years ago and Borland had a compiled language that was almost as fast as working with an interpreted language. Compile and link in seconds on 8Mhz machines:

"At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters."

Found this article where the guy claims that the technology was folded into Delphi and it was probably about 1 million lines per minute on much faster hardware:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html

[mwfj]

"So, in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team"

"By November, we had finished testing and come up with a solid release."

Windows was announced in November of 1983.

I guess what I am saying is that for Windows 1.0, this guy was most likely not that instrumental.

[BEEdwards → mwfj]

Couldn't even make it to the end of the first page of the story could you?

He is very clear in his role and influence on the initial versions of windows, since you don't like reading I'll sum it up for you,

"There wasn’t much time to make changes."

[mwfj → BEEdwards]

Why the hostility?

[brudgers]

Date: 2010

[BEEdwards → brudgers]

As it's talking about a time from 1985 to ~1995 does that matter?

[brudgers → BEEdwards]

In terms of my compulsions? Apparently so.