Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:04:15 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: <fcash@bigfoot.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <022e01c178ac$71267ba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <01fe01c178a1$001d1be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C0578D7.3474.29B2F4E@localhost>
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Freddie writes: > And all the things they did wrong with version > 4 (like pull the graphics into the Kernel, > thus breaking the whole concept of the HAL). I remember that well, and it worried me a lot. But Microsoft desperately wanted to improve the performance of graphics on NT (for games and things), and it wanted to transplant a lot of cruddy 9x code into NT to give it the same look and feel without spending too much money, so the changes were made. It did taint the OS--and more significantly, it made the OS less suitable as a server. There's a certain cognitive dissonance in Microsoft wanted to position NT as a server, even as it destabilizes the platform to make it work more like a desktop. Windows 2000 and XP apparently went even further in the desktop direction. I guess MS still doesn't understand that you can't have an OS that does _both_ of these things optimally. > Are you beholden to the application, or the > task the application performs? There is a *very* > big difference. Often to the application itself, because of the need to exchange data with others. If only results counted, I'd have a lot more flexibility. > [aside, this has happened many times throughout > this thread. i no longer know which side Anthony > is arguing, each message is different] Perhaps your misconception is in believing that I'm "arguing a side." > It wasn't until a few years ago that they changed > it to Microsoft. Thus, it is not incorrect to > capitalise the middle S. Unless you are speaking in a specific historical context, trademarks should be spelled as given by their owners. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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