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New Windows 7
06-12-2008 11:22 PM
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Re: New Windows 7
06-12-2008 11:52 PM
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Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 12:01 AM
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Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 6:29 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 9:40 PM
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Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 10:36 PM
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They need to get it off the hard drive. Put the core O/S on a NVRAM board, very similar to the ROM chip that was built into the Amiga, all that goes on the hard drive then are the supporting files and plugins. Otherwise they'll just keep pushing the system requirements up and up.
It'll give us much faster boot times, and if they give the board it's own 1Gig of RAM it shouldn't rely so much on the swap file.
Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 11:14 PM
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O/S2 was a much better system but never broke down so no one made any money out of it
Re: New Windows 7
07-12-2008 11:25 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 12:08 PM
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Quote from: samuria O/S2 was a much better system but never broke down so no one made any money out of it
If no one made money out of OS/2 it's because the development costs outstripped revenues.
Even at it's peak, the OS/2 desktop client:
lacked application support compared to Widows
lacked hardware support compared to Windows
lacked OEM support compared to Windows
All of which were factors in IBM's decision to cease development.
Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 2:57 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 6:00 PM
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At that time I was a fairly sophisticated User of DOS - I recall trying Windows 1.0, chuckling a bit - then went back to DOS
IIRC The Amstrad 1512 disk machine was delivered with the Windows and it's quaint GEM interface? The Amstrad introduced a lot of new Users to computing because of it's low (?) cost, these users did not want to 'get into' DOS in the same way as us Geeks and so the Windows story started on its long journey into history.
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Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 6:18 PM
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Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 6:59 PM
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http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2001/10/a251001windowshistory_screenshots.html
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Re: New Windows 7
08-12-2008 11:26 PM
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Commercially there was a lot of support and when I worked at barclays Bank all desktops were running on it until 2000.
What is interesting is that while I was in Abbey bank last week there cash machine crashed and rebooted and yes its still running OS/2. As I have said Desqview was far superior to windows and you could load 6 programs in it while windows was still loading.
From the start windows has only grown due to the problems as companies make a lot of money out of it going wrong and needing more hardware every time a version is updated.
Windows used to be given away with everything and people even wrote software to remove it as if it was a virus
Re: New Windows 7
09-01-2009 10:59 AM
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So far installation has been extemely similar to Vista/2008 range products, more to come as we peak inside...
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