Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows

On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Andy Levy wrote:

> For some reason, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall MS
> getting caught doing exactly that - having an OS (it may have been as
> far back as DOS) which intentionally ran certain programs slower than
> the competing MS applications.

Perhaps you're thinking of the legend of "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus
won't run":

http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done_t.html

Or the AARD code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

For the case of Java, however, Microsoft was actually very friendly to
the technology (for awhile). Their Java compiler and VM for Windows
were the fastest around. But this was in the 1990s, and Microsoft's
attitude toward Java has changed considerably since then.

Trevor

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