> Invisible wrote:
>>>
>>> And delivered years later ;). If they had written it in Haskell, 
>>> they'd actually had to rewrite it from the scratch (I'm pretty sure 
>>> they've reused lots of code from earlier versions). Bye-bye for old 
>>> bugs, yes. Welcome for new bugs, also yes.
>>
>> Well, I'm told they rewrote a lot of it already, but yeah, you're 
>> probably right...
>>
> 
> Surely yes, lots and lots of new code (hence lots and lots of new 
> bugs;).

They re-wrote the network stack, and on initial betas, apparently they 
had re-introduced bugs that had been fixed in Win95. (like a ping packet 
forged to look like it came *from* 127.0.0.1 caused a kernel-mode 
infinite loop, locking up the system badly)

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