Brian Ross wrote on Jun 30^th, 2021 at 9:11pm:


You are a clown, Brian. Like I've said, if you want to promote Linux, feel free in another thread. Poncing on about Linux in a Windows thread is fanboi, it's uncalled for and unhelpful. In fact on many sites it would be called trolling. You could have used computers for 100 years and still be a tool. I did programming in Basic in 1979 at Mt Lawley Tech(Tafe now?) in Perth, so that's my start. Listing what you think you want us to believe and what I really think of your Resume are entirely at odds. You're a fanboi and you know very little of OSes as you have shown, here and at PA, stop embarrassing yourself.

edit: This right here shows how much shyte you are full of.
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No, you have not. Now tell us you even invented them many years before they even existed or that you are a time traveller.

Microsoft released Windows 1.0 on November 6, 1985
Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds: to create a new free operating system kernel.

Tsk, tsk. 

edit2: I bet you have used OS/2, most of our ATMs ran it before it was abandoned by IBM, ever use one?

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Brian Ross wrote on Jun 30^th, 2021 at 10:42pm:


VMS, my favourite system. DEC were great engineers.

Did you know the guy that designed VMS went to Microsoft and he designed the Kernel of NT that is the foundation of Windows today. If you look at many of the architectural aspects of Windows now you will see many similarities to VMS.

MS DOS was a hobby OS.

NT and therefore Windows is an enterprise grade OS.

People live in the past too much. I am guilty of this too. I slagged off MS DOS for years and didn't look at NT closely. My mistake, a missed opportunity. I was surprised to learn how from NT on, how well engineered Windows is.

I have the Windows Internals 6 Part 1 and 2 on my book shelve. It looks like VMS in many ways.

Brian Ross wrote on Jun 25^th, 2021 at 2:43pm:


"Windows is a useless OS for servers."

That is really an uninformed statement.

An example is that Windows running SQLServer is now more powerful, scalable and more multithreaded than Oracle running on any OS.

Window Server is far from useless. If you want to run freeware forum software, or just one simple application, go cheap, use Unix or one of it's variants.

Have you written any programs on Windows, have you seen what is in .NET. Can you see how the operating system is rich and allows you to do anything you can dream of doing.

LOL, I am Brianish.

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 1^st, 2021 at 9:53pm:


LOL

I loved VMS and the things you could do through all the System Services and how things hung together. DCL was way ahead of it's time. And yes it was a big Kernel and had Supervisor layers.

Windows OS is similar in many ways as an OS, forget Windows UI. I find the numbers of processes looks messy but they need to keep all the legacy crap running.

The biggest issue with Windows OS in this modern day is it doesn't have an App Model with proper containers for applications like a phone (I don't know what is happening on the apple PC OS) Maybe Windows 11 will address this as they are promoting their App store and you will be able to run Android Apps on it.

Super Nova wrote on Jul 1^st, 2021 at 9:04pm:


OK, that was probably a bit harsh, no-one should have that slur cast upon them, I apologise. You did not come into a Win thread and go all fanboi.

I was trying to point out the comment about Unix/variants was not a particularly nice summation of their usefulness, "if you wanna do something cheap and nasty, use Unix"... The flip side to that is Win server is the best.

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Microsoft has drawn an arbitrary line and declared that PCs and laptops with processors from only a few years ago (even 2018) won't work with Windows 11. This is crazy and Microsoft should be ashamed of itself.

Windows 11 won't support Intel Core chips like the i3, i5, i7, etc that are older than the 8th generation or AMD Ryzen 3/5/7 processors before the 3xxx series. The Ryzen 3 3xxx only came out in 2019!

Carl D wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 6:20pm:



Microsoft is a criminal organisation to do this.
They want 90% of the world's computers chucked in rubbish dumps.