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[Super Nova]

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[Super Nova]

Having been involved and committed to DEC technology in my early career this is one of the saddest stories in the industry. They were real innovators and thought leaders.

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC[1] and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. It was a leading vendor of computer systems, including computers, software, and peripherals, and its PDP and successor VAX products were the most successful of all minicomputers in terms of sales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Eq ... orporation

DEC thinking and the wonderful features of the kernel of VMS are now in all our PCs. I always envisaged the world would go VMS and they have through Microsoft getting the guys who designed the VMS kernel to work on the NT platform. The platform on PCs today is a product of some great software engineering.

It is popularly believed that Dave Cutler[2] intended the initialism "WNT" as a pun on VMS, incrementing each letter by one. However, the project was originally intended as a follow-on to OS/2 and was referred to as "NT OS/2" before receiving the Windows brand.[3] One of the original NT developers, Mark Lucovsky, states that the name was taken from the original target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ("N-Ten").[4] Various Microsoft publications, including a 1998 question-and-answer session with Bill Gates, reveal that the letters were expanded to "New Technology" for marketing purposes but no longer carry any specific meaning.[5] The letters were dropped from the name of Windows 2000, though Microsoft described the product as "Built on NT technology".

This is the smartest decision Microsoft made and is the bases for a lot of what we have today.

Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design reflect earlier DEC experience with Cutler's VMS[16] and RSX-11. The operating system was designed to run on multiple instruction set architectures and multiple hardware platforms within each architecture. The platform dependencies are largely hidden from the rest of the system by a kernel mode module called the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

[Super Nova]

Geeze, no wonder you are so backward looking! No wonder you want the world to be like it was in the days of the PDP11.

Today's world is built on the shoulders of past giants Monk. That is how we develop scientifically and technologically.

[Super Nova]

You haven’t left the old days.

I think you will find I am up-to-date with today and tomorrow and work for one of the most innovative IT companies on the planet.

You only attack when you don't know what you are talking about or someone disagrees with you.

[Super Nova]

Nah, old fashioned thinking is written all over you.

If you say so.

Thanks for contributing to this discussion.

[Super Nova]

Quite frankly...who did you expect to attract to this Thread?

I am interested and while you guys are hanging shit on each other all the time over in Politics I decided to created something that may be of interest to others.

Only Monk, yourself and (if we can believe him, Poachy) give a fuck about IT here. You bore the shit out of me (and probably everyone else) with this introspective non-political crap.

Well I am sorry the topic is not of interest to you.

Monk is interested in technology - I know that
So is Annie
So is IQ
So is RS
boxy is sometimes
Other sometimes as well.

So maybe just one more thread that could be useful in learning new things or discussing what coming or has gone before maybe of interest to some.

If they are not, the thread will die.

Thanks for sharing your thought here Aussie. You contribution as always is informative.

Oh, technology is having a major effect on our world , the way we life and the policies that are and need to be made. I hope you will grow to appreciate this fact as you use this technology just to post fucking here.

[Jovial_Monk]

SN just seems to have missed all sorts of new techniques, like telepresence or its domestic equivalent, video phone calls utilising the always–on nature of broadband—this is a favorite use so far.

SN might cast his mind back to the wide open spaces here—the isolation. Any wonder that rural councils are negotiating with NBN Co to co–pay towards getting the FTTH rolled out in their council areas that under the plan of 93% coverage would not get it. This includes red–hot Liberal and Nat councils.

So it seems people want the NBN (70% support) want the higher speed tiers and even want it if they have to pay part of the cost of getting FTTH rolled out.

This is an enormous number of people of all types, demographics etc. I think that shows the NBN is needed and wanted and that SN can’t stand the direction broadband is going.

[Rorschach]

SN just seems to have missed all sorts of new techniques, like telepresence or its domestic equivalent, video phone calls utilising the always–on nature of broadband—this is a favorite use so far.

SN might cast his mind back to the wide open spaces here—the isolation. Any wonder that rural councils are negotiating with NBN Co to co–pay towards getting the FTTH rolled out in their council areas that under the plan of 93% coverage would not get it. This includes red–hot Liberal and Nat councils.

So it seems people want the NBN (70% support) want the higher speed tiers and even want it if they have to pay part of the cost of getting FTTH rolled out.

This is an enormous number of people of all types, demographics etc. I think that shows the NBN is needed and wanted and that SN can’t stand the direction broadband is going.

Now there's ignorance and delusion all tolled into one.

[Jovial_Monk]

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are good places to look. I get their daily or weekly emails (except for Whirlpool.)

[IQS.RLOW]

I'm pretty sure Aussie is trying to protect Monk from embarrassing himself thus shooting his defence of the NBN down even more than he normally does.