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Windows NT (as a usable thing available to the naive general public) didn't exist before Microsoft built it, so it was technically correct to call it new techno
by exikyut 5y ago
Windows NT (as a usable thing available to the naive general public) didn't exist before Microsoft built it, so it was technically correct to call it new technology technology. In the same vein, this is arguably new compression technology.
The above being said, my reaction to the article's key point was "you've been shipping forward and reverse diffs this entire time???"
I guess my point is that it's kinda sad that it's most correct to generally describe things like this like as "new technology", because customers who've never seen something like it before don't apply any distinction between that and the idea having existed for however long. </rant>
- emteycz 5y agoWell of course the naive public doesn't make a distinction as it would be completely irrelevant to them. Can't use it now? Then it's a theory. A new thing I can buy today? Now that's innovative technology to them.
- ms4720 5y agoI always thought that it was just VMS done poorly
- ch_123 5y agoThe bits based on VMS (or more specifically the MICA project) were done quite well, it's all the Win32 crud on top which causes the problems.
- rswail 5y agoThe NT kernel is a nice design especially the (original) support for different flavors of syscalls to support both Windows and POSIX (and potentially others). A lot of that got lost over the years.