5 Feb
2018
5 Feb
'18
4:22 a.m.
On Sunday, February 4, 2018, Toby Thain <toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2018-02-04 3:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
I like the following part from this article:
"Vendors including Oracle, Informix, and Computer Associates have
_recently_ announced plans to support Linux".
No mention of *BSD systems which were also open source at the time.
This was the beginning of the decline of *BSD systems in the server market
and it was 20 years ago. Things went much more downhill since then...
--Andy
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Ron Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com
<mailto:ron@ronnatalie.com>> wrote:
> None of these APIs is native to NT, they're implemented on top of
it.
> I think only at boot you can run code
that uses the NT API
directly.
Amusingly, I have a device in my airplane
that runs NT4 without any
Windows
graphical API on it. You can see the thing printing the NT4
startup and
build number when you power it on and it will BSOD.
BSOD on an airplane? That sounds kind of scary.
One time I was poking around a US Navy landing craft after coming off an
amphibious assault ship and somehow found myself down in the engine
room. The computer controlling either the engines or the screws was
running some variant of Windows. It wasn't my bailiwick at the time (I
was a Marine officer; I wasn't even *supposed* to be there ... but I was
curious and pretty much had the run of the boat as long as I didn't
touch anything) but it sort of scared me.
You might remember this:
https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/