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You were surprised? Why?You were surprised? Why?Posted Jul 9, 2009 16:30 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: You were surprised? Why? by khim Parent article: Google Chrome OS and the community
There are plenty of old dos programs that do not run on windows. Anything that polled a mouse will chew up CPU. Anything that did out of the ordinary graphics will not work, games...
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Yeah, but then Linux's task is simpler from the start... Posted Jul 9, 2009 19:07 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] There are plenty of old dos programs that do not run on windows. Anything that polled a mouse will chew up CPU. Anything that did out of the ordinary graphics will not work, games... Sure. DOS programs were written as if they own the computer. Which they did. So it's not easy to containerize them without huge overhead. The comparable thing in Linux world are OSS programs - they also like to hog the part of computer (/dev/dsp device). And like MS DOS games these old programs worked poorly with new distributions. And like with Windows the idea that you can just rewrite all programs (Windows old took of with version 3.0 which was the first version with decent support for MS DOS programs) didn't fly. Why the hell linux developers must repeat all Microsoft's mistakes?
Yeah, but then Linux's task is simpler from the start... Posted Jul 11, 2009 9:55 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Because they're not "Microsoft"'s mistakes, per se: they're mistakes made
by software developers in general. MS just tripped over them, and now so are we.
Actually, this one isn't even a mistake: it's an inevitable consequence of
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