RE: Win 2K

["Bertus de Wet" <bdewet wa freei net>]

Check this one out!!!!



>
> Microsoft's attempt at open source:
>
> >  /*  Source Code to Windows 2000   */
> >
> >              #include "win31.h"
> >              #include "win95.h"
> >              #include "win98.h"
> >              #include "workst~1.h"
> >              #include "evenmore.h"
> >              #include "oldstuff.h"
> >              #include "billrulz.h"
> >              #include "monopoly.h"
> >              #define INSTALL = HARD
> >
> >              char make_prog_look_big[1600000];
> >              void main()
> >              {
> >                  while(!CRASHED)
> >                  {
> >                      display_copyright_message();
> >                      display_bill_rules_message();
> >                      do_nothing_loop();
> >                      if (first_time_installation)
> >                      {
> >                          make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
> >                          do_nothing_loop();
> >                          totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
> >                          search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
> >                          make_futile_attempt_to_damage_Linux();
> >                          disable_Netscape();
> >                          disable_RealPlayer();
> >                          disable_Lotus_Products();
> >                          hang_system();
> >                      }
> >
> >                      write_something(anything);
> >                      display_copyright_message();
> >                      do_nothing_loop();
> >                      do_some_stuff();
> >
> >                      if (still_not_crashed)
> >                      {
> >                          display_copyright_message();
> >                          do_nothing_loop();
> >                          basically_run_windows_3.1();
> >                          do_nothing_loop();
> >                          do_nothing_loop();
> >                      }
> >                  }
> >
> >                  if (detect_cache())
> >                      disable_cache();
> >
> >                  if (fast_cpu())
> >                  {
> >                       set_wait_states(lots);
> >                       set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
> >                       set_mouse(action, jumpy);
> >                       set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
> >                  }
> >
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.1");    */
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.11");   */
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows 95");     */
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 3.0"); */
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows 98");     */
> >                  /* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 4.0"); */
> >                  printf("Welcome to Windows 2000");
> >
> >                  if (system_ok())
> >                      crash(to_dos_prompt)
> >                  else
> >                      system_memory = open("a:\swp0001.swp",
O_CREATE);
> >
> >                  while(something)
> >                  {
> >                      sleep(5);
> >                      get_user_input();
> >                      sleep(5);
> >                      act_on_user_input();
> >                      sleep(5);
> >                  }
> >                  create_general_protection_fault();
> >              }

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Ziccardi [mailto:zicc bellatlantic net]
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 12:43 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Win 2K


Paul Jacobs wrote:
>
> Below a performance test or win 2K is this true?.
>
> Those results came in the form of 227,079 order transactions per minute
> achieved with a system consisting of Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000
> running on 12 Compaq ProLiant servers in a scale-out configuration. Gates
> called the record rate "enough to handle all the e-commerce done on the
Web
> during the last year in two days," adding, "Our competition and our
> customers will be amazed by this."


That similiar to the pseudo-quote (I can't recall it exactly)
"640k ram is more memory than anyone should need" by Gates in '84 or '86

I saw a review for W2K, I think it was server that required 256mb ram, my
god hw many flight simulators from excel they hiding in the screensaver or
something.

Anyways, I'll stick to running RH on my old 386s/486s with 8mb ram :)

-Chad Ziccardi