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Originally Posted by enorbet2 
Gaming has been an extremely powerful force shaping computing, and if Valve succeeds at both Source and Steam for Linux, the ripples could swell very large.
Gaming has been an extremely powerful force shaping computing, and if Valve succeeds at both Source and Steam for Linux, the ripples could swell very large.
I agree completely. Gaming is to computing technology what pornography was to video technology... unfortunately (in that analogy) Windows is the VHS equivalent.
Hopefully this time around 'Betamax' will get another shot at redemption!
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Originally Posted by enorbet2
Aside (and largely opinion) - Windows 2000 was the most robust GUI OpSys MS ever made, and to the person who touted NT4 I have to say "Really? That OpSys was a clunky, bad joke... literally". It was M$'s ultimate pirate act that shot raspberries at IBM as they took considerable Intellectual Property with very questionable rights to do so. They even claimed a new employee was responsible, not the joint MS/IBM venture that ended so badly, OS/2 Warp 3, who brought the foundations for MS OS/2 NT v3.5 with him from Digital. Why IBM never took MS to court over that employee's non-disclosure agreement with Digital we will probably never know.
Aside (and largely opinion) - Windows 2000 was the most robust GUI OpSys MS ever made, and to the person who touted NT4 I have to say "Really? That OpSys was a clunky, bad joke... literally". It was M$'s ultimate pirate act that shot raspberries at IBM as they took considerable Intellectual Property with very questionable rights to do so. They even claimed a new employee was responsible, not the joint MS/IBM venture that ended so badly, OS/2 Warp 3, who brought the foundations for MS OS/2 NT v3.5 with him from Digital. Why IBM never took MS to court over that employee's non-disclosure agreement with Digital we will probably never know.
I don't want to derail this further with windows history minutiae but other than Kerberos, some slight modifications to NTFS, and the partial abstraction (or further hybridization if you prefer) of the kernel-level device drivers - much of NT4 remained unchanged in NT5 (WIndows2000). I loved Win2K and thought it was great, but regardless of the numerous issues NT4 had and the dubious MS ownership status - I managed a huge enterprise with only 3 FTE's (OK none of us only worked 40hr weeks but still). I still have one of my domain controllers running as a VM simply because it has a current uptime of 16 years without a crash - and would report the entire span if it had not been taken down for hardware replacement and later virtualization.
It was far from perfect and it was horrible to secure... but it worked fantastic for myself and over 2200 users spread over 4 states. If it were possible to buy IBM a beer over it.... I would in a heartbeat.
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