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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >>> It might be a bit much for one person, but maybe it could be broken    
   >>> up into manageable chunks and done piecemeal by a small team rather    
   >>> than trying to do everything at once.   
   >>>   
   >> Ironically, someone on one of these let's-write-our-own projects (I    
   >> forget which. It was a wiki somewhere.) once put forward that very    
   >> idea, simply with a larger granularity and a wider overall scope. One    
   >> person/group develops Presentation Manager. One provides a    
   >> command-line interpreter and ancillary command line utilities. One    
   >> provides a Workplace Shell. One provides an installer. One provides a    
   >> kernel. ...   
   >>   
   > Given that PM is about 2 orders of magnitude more work-intensive than    
   > a shell, I would consider such a "project" a sheer lunacy.   
   >   
      
   You haven't actually measured how work-intensive it would be to    
   implement, though, have you?  Your order of magnitude is just a guess.   
      
      
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