bitcrazed

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by bitcrazed 6y ago
You think there weren't codes of conduct back in 1983? ;)
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by bitcrazed 6y ago
You and I both - first time I ever touched an IBM PC XT (in my Dad's office), I immediately fired up BASIC and went to town (had already been programming BASIC for 18 months by that time). It was the first time I ever saw him just star
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by bitcrazed 6y ago
WSL uses a Hyper-V derived virtual machine that is * Sparse & light - they only allocate resources from the host when needed, and release them back to the host when freed * Fast - it can boot a WSL distro from cold in < 2s * Transit
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by bitcrazed 6y ago
Hi. Microsoft PM working on WSL, Terminal and Windows. WSL2 literally runs user-mode distros (and their binaries) in containers atop a shared Linux kernel image ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel ) inside a
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by bitcrazed 6y ago
Hi. PM on Windows & WSL here. Imagine if you could run AI/ML apps and tools that are coded to take advantage of DirectML on Windows and/or atop DirectML via WSL. Now you can run the tools you want and need in whichever environ
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by bitcrazed 7y ago
As a matter of interest, have you tried WSL? It's a much more integrated experience than the isolated VM approach.
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by bitcrazed 7y ago
PM for Windows Command-Line here. Appreciate your feedback, but we solicited and received feedback from many, MANY sources. UserVoice, Stack Overflow, Github Issues, customer interviews, email, Twitter, comments after speaking at events, co
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by bitcrazed 7y ago
Hi. PM on Windows Command-Line here. The Console/Terminal team first took-ownership of the Console & Cmd codebases in late 2014, so it's been ~5.5 years. Until v. recently, the team averaged ~2.5 devs and 0.5 PM (I had to spli
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by bitcrazed 7y ago
Hi. PM on Windows Command-Line here: A couple of things: 1. You're confusing Cmd (the command-line shell) with Console (the terminal UX you see and interact with on-screen) 2. Development for NT started in Oct 1989 and the first versio
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by bitcrazed 7y ago
Hey Nick. I'm the PM for Windows Terminal, and formerly, WSL: Thanks for your thoughts on WSL & the new Terminal. Re. release mechanisms, etc: Terminal will be delivered via the Store so we can ship out-of-band. We're aiming t
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
You should give WSL a try now - a couple of years ago would have been shortly after it was first released, when it was VERY early, and only barely able to run some of the more sophisticated tools you'd want/need. WSL has come a LO
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Re. Color: Not true - Windows Console supports 16M 25-bit RGB colors since Creators Update (build 1703): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/09/22/24-b... That said, yes, the Console cannot
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
We hear you re. disk perf, and Linux filesystem access from Windows - we're working on it. Bear with us. Also, we added a decent amount of libusb support back in Creators Update: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/command
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
In short ... DON'T! Assume that your distro's are locked away behind a one-way wall - Linux can see Windows files, but Windows cannot (safely) use Linux files. More details here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/co
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
I recommend enabling WSL, installing your favorite distro from the Windows store and giving it a try. I think you'll be surprised by what WSL CAN do and the scenarios in which it's more useful than a full VM. Distros running on
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
You mention Hyper. Are you running PowerShell connected to Hyper or Console? If you're running Hyper, note that this alone takes 6s to (warm) start Cmd on my 16GB RAM Core-i7 Surface Pro 4. PowerShell takes ~1.2s to (warm) start connec
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
IFSHLP.SYS was originally created during the implementation of OS/2 1.2, and later released in Windows 3.11 running on 32-bit 386 Enhanced Mode. Its job was to provide 32-bit file access (bypassing 16-bit DOS file IO mechanisms), and e
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
I am not comparing performance of a terminal window - Cmd and PowerShell both run connected to the same terminal app - Windows Console (conhost.exe) as discussed ad nauseum in the posts that are the subject of this thread. But you're c
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
You're conflating two things here: Remote Procedure Calls have many implementations. CORBA and Java implement RMI, Microsoft implemented DCOM. And for serializing API calls, they do great. However, what's REALLY hard about remote
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Fixed! Let me know if you prefer the updated version I posted this afternoon. Thanks for the feedback :)
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
> You would be hard pressed to find DOS-era software that bangs on buffer starting at 0xB800:0000 that still works in 64-bit Windows. True, though 32-bit editions of Windows still include NTVDM which runs Win16 apps! Microsoft is pretty
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Console now enumerates and allows selection of monospace TTF fonts. Alas, as one of our dev's says often "Fonts are just files containing collections of lies"! Some fonts claim to only contain monospace, glyphs, but don'
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
As a matter of interest, have you tried Windows 10's Console?
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Actually, no - Windows ME did not depend on MS-DOS. For all the bad rap it got (some of which was deserved), ME bypassed real-mode MS-DOS (and its config files) at bootup, and loaded its own protected-mode drivers, etc. in IO.SYS. It also l
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Refactoring spaghetti would have been a breeze compared to the Console. What stands as a HUGE testament to the Console team's effort, however, is the fact that, while re-engineering what was truly a nightmare code-base, apart from a fe
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
G'ah - PLEASE read the posts about which you're commenting - Cmder is a terminal/Console, not a shell. Cmd.exe is a (headless) command-line shell. A shell accepts input from a terminal/Console and emits text to its conne
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
<img src="Eyore_looking_glum.jpg /> ;) :D
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
I'd swear at you in Welsh but I fear I may wear-out my 'l', 'e', and 'u' keys ;) Thanks all - appreciate that some of my enthusiasm came through, though the previous poster had a point about the sheer dens
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
Fair comment - I agree and so removed a bunch of !'s and emoji for you, though I did leave a few in to convey some of my (and the team's) excitement - we're genuinely buzzed to be able to massively improve the Console. Hope y
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by bitcrazed 8y ago
LOL - nothing nefarious - made a few corrections and improvements to the post - aaaaand managed to bork the publishing process which took a few mins to re-generate and refresh the cache! Ugh! Should be back up and available now!

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