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Soundproof, where do you get these stories? There has been no "DOS core" in Windows since NT 3.1...
I'm sure that story of yours is a great bar joke at the Apple evangelists' convention, but let's try to stay with the facts here. Or just bury this crappy thread.
This thread is a prime example of why any mention is banned on Wednesdays©🤒
Soundproof, where do you get these stories? There has been no "DOS core" in Windows since NT 3.1...
I'm sure that story of yours is a great bar joke at the Apple evangelists' convention, but let's try to stay with the facts here. Or just bury this crappy thread.
This thread is a prime example of why any mention is banned on Wednesdays©🤒
Ooh yes, it's quite refreshing to get away from Apple at least somewhere on a B&O forum 😂
(should've said more accurately "...since the demise of Windows ME" above - I won't go back and edit the original anymore)
I thought my use of the tense was quite clear?
... for a long time was on speed with their OS - the 512 scoops of data in DOS needed to shoveled out of the way faster and faster, for the OS to keep up with other offerings.
And for a long time, Apple computers were called slow, because they had lower clock-speeds than PCs. But in pgm-to-pgm comparisons on the two platforms, the speed difference vanished.
DOS proprietary architecture remains a part of the OS - in order to protect Microsoft patents.
re xavier , you can view by size but and even search by size but you can't sort your results by size
which rather defeats the purpose of searching in the first place
it's greyed out for some utterly crazy reason
I thought my use of the tense was quite clear?
... for a long time was on speed with their OS - the 512 scoops of data in DOS needed to shoveled out of the way faster and faster, for the OS to keep up with other offerings.
Can you elaborate on "512 scoops of data in DOS" that are/were being shoveled out of the way in Windows? In all my years of study and work on computer architecture and OS internals I've never heard of anything that could remotely be twisted into that.
And for a long time, Apple computers were called slow, because they had lower clock-speeds than PCs. But in pgm-to-pgm comparisons on the two platforms, the speed difference vanished.
Certainly many fools made such comparisons. Anybody who knows anything will not compare the clock speeds on totally different processor architectures... (where PPC and x86 were just about as far from each other as possible)
DOS proprietary architecture remains a part of the OS - in order to protect Microsoft patents.
If you say so. 😂
Apple is a $50 billion (turnover) company.
Microsoft is a $59 billion (turnover) company.
Not sure from where you've got those figures, it's rather Apple US$ 36,5bn and Microsoft US$ 56,3b as far as the latest annual comparison goes (the latter being a rather more complex company).
A corollary to the line of reasoning that managing such behemoths requires skill is that those who are able to do so should have no restriction in accepting whatever pay and bonus the Board of Directors decides it needs to pay in order to attract that caliber of talent.
Those who have demonstrated a real talent (admittedly combined with a great deal of luck, too) have already awarded themselves - they do not need to chase the top jobs for yet another 100m salary - actually, Steve Jobs, but also eg Eric Schmidt of Google have a salary of US$ 1,-, annually.
Indeed, Google joined Microsoft and Apple as the third giant to compete in the tech arena - an easy read on that incl. some comparisons
Apple is a $50 billion (turnover) company.
Microsoft is a $59 billion (turnover) company.
Not sure from where you've got those figures, it's rather Apple US$ 36,5bn and Microsoft US$ 56,3b as far as the latest annual comparison goes
The figures come from the master of the Reality Distortion Field®:
As to complexity, one might consider that the fruity company is the link in the US, the in the world, the link in the U.S., and, with 294 stores in 10 countries, the chain in the world. The retail operations alone have 20,000 employees.
Fair enough, he talks about the future using present tense - if you annualize [their 2010 Q1] revenue. I don't want to be splitting a hair further, still the Microsoft figure must also be coming from the future? 😎
As to complexity, one might consider that the fruity company is the in the US, the link in the world, the in the U.S., and, with 294 stores in 10 countries, the link chain in the world. The retail operations alone have 20,000 employees.
I'm not denying that Apple is also complex enough a company, rather I try to see things in a broader context. An
Speaking of B&O and computing, maybe I missed this on the boards last month but did anyone else see this?
Yes - been featured a few times - I don't think B&O acknowledge the link. It is a David Lewis design. The article is appallingly written - 'even more unique' - horrible!
My B&O Icons:
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