[aklug] Re: Windows 7 Beta Program

I've actually got a copy of Windows 1.0 somewhere in my boxes of boxes of stuff.
I've also got a copy of SCO unix that isn't being used. Suck it, McBride.

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org on behalf of David Prentice
Sent: Mon 2009-01-12 1:58 PM
To: CLAY SCOTT
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: [aklug] Re: Windows 7 Beta Program
 
I don't remember Windows 1.0 but I remember Windows 2.0, just like I
remember OS/2 2.0.

I distinctly remember Windows 3.0, 3.1, and 3.11. None of them were
"Windows NT". So I disagree with "NT" being "3.1". Windows 3.1 was a
window manager for DOS. NT was a seperate OS entirely. I remember an
"NT and an "NT 4.0", but that second one may have been about the time
of Win95 or Win98. I don't recall.

Love how MS plays the number game with "code versions" not matching
release versions.

I confess Windows 2000 and XP were very closely identical, so a minor
version change between them is appropriate.

By my count, NT was "4", so if 2000/XP is "5" then the anomoly being
ignored is the 95/98/Me branch.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, CLAY SCOTT <rudeboy@gci.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Prentice <ak.prentice@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:48 pm
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Windows 7 Beta Program
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>
>> I don't understand the math leading to the '7' in "Windows 7".
>
> <snip>
>
> The first release of Windows was Windows 1.0, the second was Windows 2.0, the third Windows 3.0.
>
> After Windows 3.0 was Windows NT which was code versioned as Windows 3.1. Then came Windows 95, which was code versioned as Windows 4.0. Then, Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Millennium each shipped as 4.0.1998, 4.10.2222, and 4.90.3000, respectively. So all 9x versions are counted as being 4.0.
>
> Windows 2000 code was 5.0 and then Windows XP shipped as 5.1 to maximize application compatibility.
>
> Windows Vista is then 6.0.
>
> ~Clay
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