Cargo cult Agile
Multiple MVPs? 6 months release cycle?
4 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Dec 2011
As someon who worked for M$ in the Win2 days...
Win 1 was always designed for overlapping windows (look at the API documentation) but they were scared of Xerox, when Apple got away with it they turned it on in Win2.
TSR's were not really part of the original DOS spec - certainlythe interrupt handling and hooking was not part of the deisgn and emerged through industry custom and practice - led by Lotus IIRC.
It's an interesting point about whether it was an OS. You could argue Win/386 was the first version that was as it ran DOS in a Virtual machine and had drivers for the who machines including BIOS,. It used DOS as a loader, of course, but a loader is not an OS.
On the graphics driver front, the developers tested the graphics drivers by writing the HPGL driver and seeing what a plotter did.
In addition, for some time the Excel developers (Microsoft's A team out to kill Lotus) hacked the Windows servers to make Excel perform faster so they could compete with DOS mode 1-2-3.
It was of course all enormous fun
.. which is probably where the confusion arises.
Of cause, casting off your anchor line would generally be a bad thing to do. Saw it done earlier this year when we were anchored watching the AC45 racing off Drake's Island off that Jannerville. Some idiotic posh womann helming a 50' Bavaria tried to park up too close between our two rafted boats and and another yacht (flying an RNLI banner). She managed to foul the other yachts anchor line with her anchor and then get her line under their boat while having to be pushed off the long bowsprit on my friends old gaffer fishing smack. The other yacht got out their bolt croppers and threatened to cut the anchor line, which convinced the idiot boat to put a buoy on the end of their anchor and CAST IT OFF. Not so.mething to do in a hurry