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Many years ago when I worked at Microsoft I asked for the source code to Solitaire. A few days later I received a stack of CD-ROMs with the entire source code o
by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Many years ago when I worked at Microsoft I asked for the source code to Solitaire. A few days later I received a stack of CD-ROMs with the entire source code of Windows NT (4.0 maybe).
- rbanffy 6y ago> a stack of CD-ROMs with the entire source code of Windows NT That's a lot of code. Scary.
- mandeepj 6y ago>That's a lot of code. It's estimated to be around 40 million lines of code
- macjohnmcc 6y agoAnd it was not compressed it was just a bunch of files and folders. My guess is it was around 15 CD-ROMs
- rbanffy 6y ago40 million lines of 80 characters would fit in 5 CDs. With a more reasonable average length, it'd fit comfortably in 3. And 40 million lines for an OS is a crazy amount of code.
- herodoturtle 6y agoAnd what of the source code to Solitaire!? Cool memory, thanks for sharing.
- westmeal 6y agoCan't wait until cozy bear leaks that :D
- macjohnmcc 6y agoMake that winning animation use the GPU!
- sn_master 6y agoNT 4 code was already leaked almost full back in 2004. You can still find it with relative ease if you know where to look, or search for certain keywords in the code.
- keyle 6y agoMan I'm old, but give me NT 4 with modern technology support, modern drivers and GPU driven and I would move in a heartbeat.
- sn_master 6y agoWhat do you miss the most? The UI? Speed?
- vxNsr 6y agoYes! UI was amazing and obviously you can’t beat the speed it would run at on modern hardware
- sn_master 6y agoUI shouldn't be too hard (https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/8628/ https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/8628/). I am not so sure about the speed if you'll use modern drivers.
- lukeschlather 6y agoHonestly I think Xfce is about the same. And probably more stable, though obviously it's hard to do a direct comparison.
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- macjohnmcc 6y agoIt took ages to figure out where the code even was in the many files and folders. The directory structure did not make it obvious.
- macjohnmcc 6y agoI just thought of something. At the time blank CD-R's were about $15 each and the fastest burners at the time were 2x burners. I'm sorry I wasted so much of time the person who burned these and the cost of the media!
- sedatk 6y agoThat was before Source Depot, I presume.
- macjohnmcc 6y agoThey were using SLM (Slime) but I did not have access to the server since I was on a different project (Microsoft Systems Management Server).