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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:30AM
(5 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:30AM (#634259)
DOS-based Windows and NT-based Windows are completely different operating systems. In fact there was an unreleased version of NT called Microsoft Neptune which was actually not named Windows. I have used Microsoft Neptune and it might have been nice if Microsoft had dropped the name Windows but brand recognition prevailed.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:30AM (5 children)
DOS-based Windows and NT-based Windows are completely different operating systems. In fact there was an unreleased version of NT called Microsoft Neptune which was actually not named Windows. I have used Microsoft Neptune and it might have been nice if Microsoft had dropped the name Windows but brand recognition prevailed.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:27AM (3 children)
> Microsoft Neptune
Should've named it Microsoft Uranus. Then you could call tech support and say that Uranus is being an ass.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:02AM
VMS = "Virtual Memory System"
'W' == 'V'+1
'N' == 'M'+1
'T' == 'S'+1
WNT = "Windows New Technology"
NT = "New Technology"
NepTune = 'N' +"ep"+ 'T' +"une"
Ahahahaha I get it now. Dude pass the weed dude.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:19PM (1 child)
Yeah, hello? My planet is being a jenny.
I mean, my celestial body is being a donkey.
What? No, I mean, I'm being orbited by an equine.
*CLICK*
Hello? Please help me with my errant asinus satellite! Hello!?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 08 2018, @03:05AM
The sun finally calls his supermassive black mother?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:36AM
That's why I broke out TRS-80 Basic and TRS-DOS. Never mind I spelled the OS that has made me successful *nux. Sigh.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.