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| Thread ID: 51410 | 2004-11-20 01:29:00 | And so the battle of M$ v Linux begins | miknz (3731) | Press F1 |
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| 294173 | 2004-11-21 12:00:00 | Chill, I stand corrected, I was not clear, NT was stolen/copied, and has other stolen bits in it, and some bits of DOS/95-98. But yes NT was not built straight on top of 98/98SE, they tried to copy unix/linux, but got the foundations wrong (Again) buy keeping/using bits of Dos ect, instead of making something totally new. The NT family is I suppose the disater #3 family for M/S. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 294174 | 2004-11-21 12:02:00 | Its too late at night for those jedi mind tricks :p Might look at it tomorrow(well later today) |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 294175 | 2004-11-21 19:48:00 | >they tried to copy unix/linux Actually I think it was VMS(maybe wrong with the name) as MS hired the programmers that had been working on it but as MS wanted to create some compatability the crap code seeped into NT. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 294176 | 2004-11-22 06:36:00 | Yeh Linux | Johnzz (5257) | ||
| 294177 | 2004-11-22 07:01:00 | > Yeh Linux Dont you mean: Yeah! Linux!!!! ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 294178 | 2004-11-22 07:40:00 | Looks interesting :) I used to have a little play with linux about a year ago, was dual-booting with win98. I have another half computer here, if I can find a mobo I might make a linux box to have a bit of fun with :D Good to see support for the lastest games. |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 294179 | 2004-11-22 07:59:00 | Are we not forgetting a bit of history here? There are two quite distinct streams of WIndows - 1. DOS->Win3.11->Win9x right through to ME 2. WinNT 3.x (1993)-> NT4->Win2k ->Win XP. One is built on DOS, the other is not (even though DOS commands are still included). Sure some of the ME multi-media, etc ended up in XP - but the kernel of XP is very different from the kernel of ME. The WinNT stream began when the combined IBM and MS effort into producing OS/2 broke up - hence much of the initial design of NT looked very like OS/2. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 294180 | 2004-11-22 10:03:00 | OS/2 was being delayed, Unix were fighting lawsuits and MS jumped into the markets and this is where MS succeeded. They hit mainstream first the rest had to catch up, and who knows, MS got most of their work from Digital Research, Apple and the likes, yet cleverly concealed it and still it's not apparent that anything was copied, they still can't prove that Bill Gates version of BASIC was not stolen from an HP Calculator at that time. Oh the joys of computer piracy, reverse engineering, etc, now we have the giant trying to stop what they started. Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 294181 | 2004-11-22 11:02:00 | >The WinNT stream began when the combined IBM and MS effort into producing OS/2 broke up - hence much of the initial design of NT looked very like OS/2. That was Win95 read above about VMS |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 294182 | 2004-11-22 12:15:00 | MS got most of their work > from Digital Research, Apple and the likes, yet > cleverly concealed it and still it's not apparent > that anything was copied, they still can't prove that > Bill Gates version of BASIC was not stolen from an HP > Calculator at that time. > > Oh the joys of computer piracy, reverse engineering, > etc, now we have the giant trying to stop what they > started. > > > Kame OH SO VERY VERY TRUE. You can steal it, because I want to, and IVE GOT MORE MONEY THAN YOU!!! Seems to be the M/S rules. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
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