I remember when we were a Unix shop (BSD & Linux) sharing space with guys writing code for some kind of printing software (for professional printing shops that did complex format conversions) that apparently absolutely had to be on Windows (because, unclear reasons, nobody would buy a non Windows printing management box, or something).
Anyway, they were writing for one of the early versions of NT, maybe 2000, not sure, and were pulling their hairs out the whole time we were with them.
A classic I remember was “the system will just decide that our driver (pretty much the only thing running) isn’t that important, and dump it’s priority to the shitter. Once it’s there, it’s dead in the water and we can’t get it active again without physical intervention. We’ve been talking to Microsoft for weeks to get around this.”
I suppose this has been more or less addressed by Microsoft nowadays, but, of course, this kind of thing hasn’t been an issue in unixland, like ever. Because it’s a system that fucking makes sense. And about the versions of Windows, I stopped using their stuff in the DOS days, so it’s not like I even have an opinion.
(and yes, they did have a couple very high end developers, on top of the regular grunts)
I actually really liked NT around 2000. I think it was NT 4.0? We used it for a typing class I took at the local college. That was just as an end user for one single program, but I remember liking it a lot.
Was CUPS around back then? I assume that was a trillion times easier to manage than whatever Microsoft had concocted.
I remember when we were a Unix shop (BSD & Linux) sharing space with guys writing code for some kind of printing software (for professional printing shops that did complex format conversions) that apparently absolutely had to be on Windows (because, unclear reasons, nobody would buy a non Windows printing management box, or something).
Anyway, they were writing for one of the early versions of NT, maybe 2000, not sure, and were pulling their hairs out the whole time we were with them.
A classic I remember was “the system will just decide that our driver (pretty much the only thing running) isn’t that important, and dump it’s priority to the shitter. Once it’s there, it’s dead in the water and we can’t get it active again without physical intervention. We’ve been talking to Microsoft for weeks to get around this.”
I suppose this has been more or less addressed by Microsoft nowadays, but, of course, this kind of thing hasn’t been an issue in unixland, like ever. Because it’s a system that fucking makes sense. And about the versions of Windows, I stopped using their stuff in the DOS days, so it’s not like I even have an opinion.
(and yes, they did have a couple very high end developers, on top of the regular grunts)
I actually really liked NT around 2000. I think it was NT 4.0? We used it for a typing class I took at the local college. That was just as an end user for one single program, but I remember liking it a lot.
Was CUPS around back then? I assume that was a trillion times easier to manage than whatever Microsoft had concocted.