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Alright Macheads, lets talk real deal here
hm_murdock:
Dear Aloone,
Thank ye for the kickass post!
Sincerely,
The Jimmy James
Only a couple of points. Please stop referring to Windows 95 - Windows Me as "WinDOS". There is an old software package that was called WinDOS. Just call them Windows 9x.
Also, the NT kernel was made by MS. Dave Cutler led the project, and his previous job was developing VMS at DEC. Several DEC coders came to join him, and they likely used the same programming concepts and structures, as well as similar mechanisms to do things. Plese don't claim that the NT kernel is the VMS kernel.
Aloone_Jonez:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Dear Aloone,
Thank ye for the kickass post!
Sincerely,
The Jimmy James
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Thanks!
Edit: Don't I get any stars then? :D
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Only a couple of points. Please stop referring to Windows 95 - Windows Me as "WinDOS". There is an old software package that was called WinDOS. Just call them Windows 9x.
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Sorry, I've never heard of WinDOS, I will now edit my previous post for you.
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Also, the NT kernel was made by MS. Dave Cutler led the project, and his previous job was developing VMS at DEC. Several DEC coders came to join him, and they likely used the same programming concepts and structures, as well as similar mechanisms to do things.
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I did think about including this, but I thought the post was already long enough.
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Plese don't claim that the NT kernel is the VMS kernel.
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Bad wording on my part, I never meant to imply that.
NT won't run VMS software or use any VMS drivers and vice versa.
NT is different to VMS, although it wouldn't surprise me if Cutler used some modified VMS code.
[ August 05, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]
Aloone_Jonez:
WinDOS
It looks like a very cheap and nasty GUI shell for DOS, this is extremely lame.
The website look awful, the yellow text on a snot green background makes it hard to read!
EDIT:
I thought this looked familiar, I have already downloaded it and tried it before a few years ago, its not too bad its just fucking pointless.
[ August 05, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]
solarismka:
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Yes and its these technical differences that make NT better than Win95 to ME.
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How is it better if it gets infected with the same viruses, spyware etc.... How is it better if the stability and security is the same as 9x?
Its the same thing over and over and over....
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FUD!
Read my previous post again,the NT kernel was not made by MS, VMS developers were drafted
in, thus it contains some VMS code and is a lot better that Win95 to ME. VMS was an industrial strength
operating system that beat UNIX in someways.
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TRUE!!!!
Again who gives a shit who did what! I really don't care if M$ windows is made with uber l33t Unix code. My point was that it does the same thing!
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Win95 to ME was shit, the crappy FAT32 file system was unstable and more prone to corruption than NTFS.
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WinNT for me was shit! The fact that it costs more and needs more hardware just to do the same thing is not very impressive.
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FUD!
Win95 to ME used FAT/F32 which was shit and slowed things down.
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True!!!!
Win NT to me was shit. At least with FAT some things did work abit not very well.
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XP boots up a lot quicker than Win2k it features pre-emptive booting, meaning that for the first 3
boots XP aranges the File system so that the boot up files are in the correct boot order.
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That may be. But then why is it when I booted XP it took for ever. Yes win2k boots slow but then so does XP. I do NOT CARE about the technical aspect of it. I'm intrested in it via the end user's point of view. I've used 2k and XP they are both crap!
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FUD!
Its not unusual for hardware to work under Linux but be far from fully funtional, printer/scanners
often print but don't scan, sound cards often work but the 3D without enhancement and graphics cards often work but the 3D accelerator doesn't. In Windows most drivers work very well often the drivers aren't written by MS at all but funneyly enough by the hardware manufacturer.
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TRUE!
I've used linux AND windows. I'm not someone who tries to install it and give up on its first instance. The problem you report can be the same with windows. What you are telling me is that the majority of linux drivers are shit?
No! Infact at least the majority of them works out of the box!
I'm running sound blaster with RH9 and it detected it! So its you thats spreading the FUD campain here!
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For example my printer/scanner came with both Windows and Mac drivers,
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Yes, so did mine. But when I install sead driver for windows (which was ment for that version) it fucks things up.
I pluged in my printer scanner (HP PSC) and kudzo detected it and installed it then carried on booting.
My point was that since M$ HAS been around for a long time its stupid that it STILL has bad driver support and no you can't blame hardware manufactures.
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they were suplied by Leximark so the Windows driver is as good/bad as the Mac driver.
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So? the MAC driver always work. How come this does not apply for windows? Both OS'es are closed source.
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Linux with all the things it has compared with all the things windows needs, virus scanner, ad remover, firewall etc... boots a heck of a lot faster!
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Bullshit. I run SuSE here on my laptop which dual boots with 2k! It has a p2 266mhz 96mb ram! Linux boots faster! That is what I have seen! Windows IS slow.
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True.
I agree, you shouldn't need any of that shit, it should be built in to the OS, but never the less XP still boots faster than Win2K.
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Again I've worked with both! They are the same with little difference between the too. What you are saying does not match what truly happens.
I find they are the same.
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The open source argument doesn
Paladin9:
Do you really think people actually read you long ass posts?? GIVE IT A REST!!!!
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