but that's about about where the similarity ends.
Sadly.
Scoobert wrote:
I have heard many times that winXP runs on a dos linux Then tech-tv is on drugs. If you can show me the article on their website, then I may believe it. DOS and Linux are two separate things, and nary the twain shall meet. As with all children of NT technology (Win2000 and WinXP), DOS is no longer needed to boot the GUI-OS - there is a custom Windows 'bootstrap' loader that tosses the OS into memory straight from the HD (I believe it is something akin to LILO or LoadLin for Linux) - no intermediate DOS loader is needed. In fact, DOS is a program like any other program in these OSes. Proof of the fact is the trouble DOS programs have when trying to run in WindowsME and WindowsXP - if there are any funky memory requirements, the DOS program just crashes (and possibly taking the whole machine down with it if not protected properly) Now, it is true that NT technologies share *some* of the same commands and internal structure in design (I think I'm repeating myself) as a *nix OS, but that makes it POSIX compliant - not Linux-like... If you want something that runs like Linux, but looks like Windows, get the nearly defunct 'Lindows' - if you want to pay for it of course... or install Windows *under* Linux via an emulator like VMware, Wine, or Willow. In fact, I've read in several places that this would be the most secure and stable way of running Windows on your computer! If Windows crashes, it does not take your machine down with it - just close the emulator screen that contained Windows and open it again (essentially 'restarting' the Windows session)... | |
Two things: you dont buy ram from microsoft, you dont buy ram from gateway. I got two 128 meg pc100 SDRAM chips from www.crucial.com for approx. 25 dollars each. Took about 3 weeks for em to get here, but I only payed a little over 50 bucks. As I look at the site again the same chips I bought last year are over 5 dollars cheaper(which is about 1/5th off of what I did pay.)
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Mertek wrote:
Well, for one thing, it doesn't care about me. You fool! Have you no knowledge of communism vs. capitalism? XP would care about you if you were part of the "community", thats what communism is about, its corrupt lazy people who want to be taken care of that doesn't allow communism to work. XP epitomizes capitalist standards with its numerous safeguards against software piracy to ensure that one party is ensured maximum profits for minimum work. Microsoft isn't looking to help you, its looking to make things easy for you so when things go wrong, they get paid to train people to fix them. Communism is a beautiful thing, if its actually true communism... XP is a wretched manifestation of the greed and selfishness which few economic systems other than capitalism can harness efficiently. DerDragon "Maeva will be free" | |
Have you guys been downloading a load of stuff or something, i never get any errors, and the only thing which im getting is something i accidently deleted. All my programs work though.
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Besides being grammatically screwed up, that post is mostly incorrect. Win3.x, and Win9x run on top of DOS - DOS is loaded first, then Windows on top of that - that's more or less true. But everything from WinNT 4.0 and later actually boots straight into the OS - DOS runs as a program under Windows, like any other application. It is not tied directly to the OS anymore.
And WinNT, 2000, and XP OSes are *not* Linux, Unix, or 'lunix' (whatever the heck that is) - these OSes are 'POSIX' compliant, meaning that they share some of the inner architecture concepts of Unix-based OSes, but that's about about where the similarity ends.