DOS ain't dead

NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) (Announce)

posted by marcov, 15.02.2011, 14:33

> And before marcov says, "Why should they?",

Why should they?


> 1). there's more legacy than new stuff,

But it is less used.

> 2). it doesn't hurt them at all, it's a benefit,

If you must retarget employees that could also do profitable things it does hurt. And the benefit is for less than an handful minimalists that apparantly never buy anything new from Microsoft

> 3). they (should) know DOS better than anyone,

Please. The people that worked at MS in the early days all became millionair on stockoptions and retired before 2000. For Vista/W7 they basically reverse engineered parts of their own kernel (search for "the big cycle" on the web)

> 4). an OS that runs less stuff is not more valuable (duh?),

Try it. Maybe if you guarantee a few million licenses sold, they'll probably listen. It could be that they happily fix your bugs if you make them an offer they can't refuse


> 5). why not? 90,000 employees all too busy? (doubt it)

They are doing profitable stuff, and catching up to android

Complete thread:

• PCI phased out? - marcov, 09.02.2011, 12:51 (Announce)
  • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 09.02.2011, 16:24
    • PCI phased out? - marcov, 10.02.2011, 16:02
      • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 10.02.2011, 17:57
        • PCI phased out? - marcov, 10.02.2011, 21:10
          • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 11.02.2011, 00:25
            • PCI phased out? - marcov, 11.02.2011, 10:56
              • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 12.02.2011, 02:34
                • PCI phased out? - marcov, 12.02.2011, 12:45
                  • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 21:28
                    • PCI phased out? - DOS386, 13.02.2011, 06:02
                      • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 13.02.2011, 16:11
                        • PCI phased out? - DOS386, 14.02.2011, 09:27
                    • PCI phased out? - marcov, 14.02.2011, 10:29
                    • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Ninho, 15.02.2011, 12:26
                      • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Rugxulo, 15.02.2011, 14:26
                        • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - marcov, 15.02.2011, 14:33
                        • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Ninho, 15.02.2011, 20:27
                          • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Rugxulo, 15.02.2011, 23:21
                            • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - marcov, 16.02.2011, 09:24
                            • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Ninho, 16.02.2011, 20:04
                          • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - RayeR, 16.02.2011, 01:50
                            • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - Rugxulo, 16.02.2011, 02:24
                              • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - RayeR, 16.02.2011, 10:41
                              • NTVDM speed (or lack thereof) - rr, 17.02.2011, 20:33
                  • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 14.02.2011, 15:45
                    • PCI phased out? - marcov, 15.02.2011, 13:40
                      • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 15.02.2011, 15:15
                        • PCI phased out? - marcov, 15.02.2011, 18:43
                          • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 15.02.2011, 19:46
                            • PCI phased out? - marcov, 16.02.2011, 10:36
                              • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 16.02.2011, 12:22
                                • PCI phased out? - marcov, 16.02.2011, 15:38
                                  • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 16.02.2011, 19:18
                                    • PCI phased out? - marcov, 16.02.2011, 21:22
                                      • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 17.02.2011, 02:28
                                        • EOD (was "PCI phased out?") - DOS386, 17.02.2011, 06:44
                                        • PCI phased out? - marcov, 17.02.2011, 19:44
                                          • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 18.02.2011, 08:39
                                            • PCI phased out? - marcov, 18.02.2011, 09:30
                                              • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 21.02.2011, 07:43
                                              • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 08.03.2011, 23:47
                                                • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 11.03.2011, 00:06
                                                  • PCI phased out? - roytam, 11.03.2011, 07:52
                                                • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 17.03.2011, 04:16
                                            • PCI phased out? - Ninho, 19.02.2011, 10:56
                                              • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 21.02.2011, 07:15
                                                • PCI phased out? - marcov, 21.02.2011, 14:09
                                                  • PCI phased out? - Laaca, 21.02.2011, 14:22
                                        • PCI phased out? - marcov, 21.02.2011, 14:47
                                          • PCI phased out? - roytam, 22.02.2011, 04:26
                                            • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 22.02.2011, 13:29
                                            • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 22.02.2011, 23:44
                                              • PCI phased out? - Ninho, 23.02.2011, 17:39
                                                • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 23.02.2011, 19:47
                                                  • PCI phased out? - Ninho, 23.02.2011, 19:56
                                                    • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 23.02.2011, 23:27
                                                    • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 24.02.2011, 14:37
                                          • PCI phased out? - Rugxulo, 16.03.2011, 04:58
                                  • PCI phased out? - RayeR, 18.02.2011, 14:28
                                    • PCI phased out? - marcov, 18.02.2011, 14:56
                        • PCI phased out? - roytam, 29.01.2015, 03:45