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Well, doing terrible things is sometimes necessary to perform magic or to get a better understanding about how things work. From the less flamey parts of the discussion, I gather his ideas weren't all that unsound, just extremely hard to pull off.
Generally speaking if you have to do terrible things then you need to a: know exactly what you are doing before hand and b: have the fortitude to be able to withstand harsh criticism until you can prove your code. In this case I think the harsh criticism was fully justified. People should be warned away from doing this sort of thing, precisely because it's hard to get right. As the thread makes abundantly clear the o…
I don't agree: we have no reason to doubt his claim that he wrote a task switcher for DOS. That means he's reasonably clueful. It's easy to dismiss someone as a complete loony, because he's wrong/confused about some things and is getting burned to the ground for that. Remove the flaming and there is criticism and the pointing out of mistakes, but nothing to indicate the guy has no clue whatsoever. If that were the case, it would be hard to even being criticising the idea. The fact that people could succinctly point out the problems means the ideas were stated in reasonably clear language.