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Check out the shutdown message. What's with that?
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:11:51 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> So this is what it looks like running:
>
Copyright ReactOS Foundation 1996-2009. Yeah right...
-Nekar Xenos-
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On 6/22/2010 8:14 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Tell me, does this or does this not really really look like the real
> thing? o_O
Cute... It pretends to be windows, but isn't...
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Cute... It pretends to be windows, but isn't...
Cute or horrifying, depending on your point of view. There are some
things about Windows that you wouldn't *want* to copy!
Even so, many things look very similar yet not quite right. (E.g., that
command prompt has a totally different aspect ratio.)
I haven't managed to get it to successfully run any real Windows
programs yet, but that's probably mostly due to the difficulty of
getting them into the VM without VMware Tools [which, astonishingly,
won't install ;-) ]
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And lo On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:16:53 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
> Check out the shutdown message. What's with that?
They Live!
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Phil Cook
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Nekar Xenos wrote:
> Copyright ReactOS Foundation 1996-2009. Yeah right...
Wikipedia claims the first release was in 1998, so I guess it's
*plausible*...
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Invisible wrote:
> Nekar Xenos wrote:
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>> Copyright ReactOS Foundation 1996-2009. Yeah right...
>
> Wikipedia claims the first release was in 1998, so I guess it's
> *plausible*...
Except for the copyright violations, at least. I strongly suspect there was
no clean-room development going on there.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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>>> Copyright ReactOS Foundation 1996-2009. Yeah right...
>>
>> Wikipedia claims the first release was in 1998, so I guess it's
>> *plausible*...
>
> Except for the copyright violations, at least. I strongly suspect there
> was no clean-room development going on there.
Well, again, Wikipedia asserts that the entire thing was done using 100%
clean-room development, and that they've done extensive internal code
audits to make sure everything is legal.
All of which is of course completely irrelevant, since every single tiny
aspect of all M$ products are covered by 80,000,000 patents, so if this
product ever starts actually working properly, the developers will still
be sued off the face of the Earth.
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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On 6/22/2010 7:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Cute... It pretends to be windows, but isn't...
>
> Cute or horrifying, depending on your point of view. There are some
> things about Windows that you wouldn't *want* to copy!
>
> Even so, many things look very similar yet not quite right. (E.g., that
> command prompt has a totally different aspect ratio.)
>
That aspect ratio issue is entirely dependent on font. You can change
that even in Windows, and, stupidly, some of the *sizes* are based on
.FON fonts, which have a completely different ration than the .TTF fonts
used for the other sizes. It doesn't scale them, or otherwise allow you
to set an arbitrary size, but is purely *fixed* to what ever internal
sizes exist in the font definition files. Got to be the stupidest, and
most annoying, aspect of the whole damn thing, especially if you planned
to have a "small" copy open, to look at something, but still have it
legible, while working in other, also open, windows, without having to
alt-tab between them. Hint - the small enough one for that, isn't
legible at all (well, unless maybe you had a display 40 inches wide..).
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call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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>> Even so, many things look very similar yet not quite right. (E.g., that
>> command prompt has a totally different aspect ratio.)
>>
> That aspect ratio issue is entirely dependent on font. You can change
> that even in Windows, and, stupidly, some of the *sizes* are based on
> .FON fonts, which have a completely different ration than the .TTF fonts
> used for the other sizes. It doesn't scale them, or otherwise allow you
> to set an arbitrary size, but is purely *fixed* to what ever internal
> sizes exist in the font definition files. Got to be the stupidest, and
> most annoying, aspect of the whole damn thing, especially if you planned
> to have a "small" copy open, to look at something, but still have it
> legible, while working in other, also open, windows, without having to
> alt-tab between them. Hint - the small enough one for that, isn't
> legible at all (well, unless maybe you had a display 40 inches wide..).
Yeah, it's no secret that the Windows command prompt thing isn't
brilliant. (The number of people who complain about it not supporting
ANSI escape sequences is staggering, for example.)
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