My wife sat through it and said, when it was over, it was very interesting. Shocked me!
When it was originally broadcast there were "intermissions" so one could run down the hall or whatever.


I believe that is correct. In "Triumphs of the Nerds" they interviewed the IBM representative who called on mickeysoft and then Digital Research and then back to mickeysoft.


Wasn't XP and everything since based on NT?
XP would call home, but, as I understand it, win10 is outright spyware.
That and the GUI is the worst I've seen..... almost. The default graphics for the early release of kde5 were absolutely horrible (yeah, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that).

It was unreal, wan't it? Every billboard was advertising Windows 95 and its Start menu.

I still think Windows 2000 with all the SPs was the best of them. If you didn't mind having to chkdsk /p /f every few months. (Memory's hazy, so don't quote me on the details.)

Accually, IIRC (and there was a bit of ethanol and other recreational substances involved - chemists will be chemists), the cycle fro 1970s to now was

programs -> application programs -> applications -> apps

'application programs' was usually stuff sold commercially. To me, any code running on a CPU is a 'program' and they can pry that term from my cold dead keyboard....

Blast form the past, My all time favorite computer magazine: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Of course, this all has nothing to do with 'dead' Slackware, as I use that OPERATING SYSTEM to write this post on a web forum via the Firefox web browser PROGRAM.

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Yes, and Nt under the hood was OS/2. In fact it was first sold as MS OS/2 NewTechnology. The big break with IBM came from the MS team wanting to allow some applications direct access to hardware, side-stepping the pre-emptive OpSys preventing crashes. IBM could in no way allow the often resulting BSODs in an environment qhere downtime of a few minutes could mean millions of dollars or people's lives since OS/2 was used in banking, hospitals and air traffic control to name a few.

Five years after the split the aUS Navy built a computerized battleship running a hardened NT and the ship had to be towed back to Norfolk. Reading that news at the time I had visions of banks of cannon waving wildly like a child throwing a tantrum

I'll give it a go and see what happens...
Yes, XP was based on NT... which was designed by the guy Microsoft poached from DEC, using many of the 'design ideas' from VMS (and, I'd suggest, quite possibly very similar code).

Yes, W10 is spyware. But what do we do with spyware? Install 3rd party tools to fix it: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10. Of course that doesn't close down the secret back doors which the 3 letter government agencies have, but at least it stops the software from phoning home.
Aww man! I've got work to do, you know.
Me too!

Ah, yes.
I'm sure I've posted this before, but I can't find it.
I wonder if it was the same ship?
Years ago I worked with a younger colleague who, not too many years before, served
as a Naval officer on a sister ship to the U.S.S. Cole.
The propulsion system was control by mickeysoft software, probably NT.
The propulsion system also charged the ship's batteries, so, ultimately, the entire
ship was dependent on the propulsion system. One day while out at sea the system shut
down and the monitor displayed "The Blue Screen of Death." Nothing they did could get
it to reboot. No power. Eventually, no communications, no air condition, no lights,
nothing. They drifted for three days before another ship reached them and towed them
back to port.

Do they? Do third party applications really plug the holes? It is my understanding that mickeysoft
has paid the so called "security software companies" to write their products in such a fashion that they
don't report to the user what mickeysoft is doing in the background.

Yes, 'NT' was one of the first computer acronyms I ever learned. I remember the marketing like it was yesterday...

Windows 2000 - Built on New Technology Technology

Great! Now we've got a trilogy of "Is Slackware Dead...?" threads, I can contact Peter Jackson about making the films.
Tom Hardy or Daniel Craig to play brianL???

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There's something funny about that link. I clicked on it and my router stopped working! I couldn't reach that site or any other one, not even to refresh an existing page. I had to power-cycle the router to get reconnected.

Do you think Microsoft has sabotaged that site?

I pray you, what sayeth the extispicy of Oldham cuddlies?
I fear the approach of the great pre-release fever that shall be the beginning of the dispellation of the trilogy.

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Worked just fine here. Their web page says the are a "Microsoft Gold Partner," which would mean to
me they are in mickeysoft's back pocket, one, and, two, it is unlikely they would write software to defeat what mickeysoft is trying to do to each user and their system.

Just FTR the first use of the NT (New Technology) label was "MS OS/2 3.0 NT" in 1989 which soon became just Windows NT 3.0 or 3.1. I don't recall the exact numbering at the naming morph just that the original was 3.0. IIRC it wasn't until NT 3.5 when VMS had been integrated in by 1994. Obviously Win 2K came later but indeed is very likely the pinnacle of the NTs thoughh MS soon distanced themselves from the NT moniker largely due to a $100,000,000 settlement with DEC who created VMS and sued. The renaming of stuff MS would rather forget or move on from is a favorite shell game they play, and what do ya know, it very often works..

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Ah so NT has come up again, so therefore I cannot help but reminisce; there was a time when Windows was rock solid (at least from my experience). NT 4 was interesting, but the only annoyance was its limit on NTFS partitions at 8GB, 2000 Pro came along - and added USB , DirectX and FAT32 support, although as soon as I switched to NTFS I never looked back and became a moot point. 2000 Pro (in my opinion at least), has been peak Windows - no issue whatsoever, it was indeed rock solid - and it is the only iteration of Windows that I legit have nothing but praise for. Thats is all.

I have been using Slackware for some time because the Slackware team does a good job of maintaining the base system. This has freed me to tailor the system to my needs. I frankly don't have the time to diff every change that occurs in the system between updates. I must rely on names I've recognized over the years who have demonstrated a level of trust and aptitude to maintain the distribution and security management. For what I've seen, Pat shows good leadership qualities and those who submit updates appear to be of high caliber. I use to know who were the key figures in Red Hat/Fedora development/maintenance but I no longer know. A long time ago I tried Red Hat but an update corrupted an extensive installation. I never went back.
I do everything I want/need to do with Slackware and I have been able to fix or find help fixing any issues that have come up.
Once you've gotten familiar with any distribution, I imagine one can feel the same about any distribution. After tinkering with many distributions, Slackware still seems to be the most on point. Definitely still much alive.

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