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@coolboymew @hfaust there's an Azure Discord because Teams can't handle remotely that many chat members.
@coolboymew @hfaust it's probably why they want to buy discord lol
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@coolboymew @hfaust I don't think they can make good software anymore, they arguably never did but there was some good engineering in Windows NT.
@coolboymew @hfaust as an example, the WDM layered driver model is better than Linux. And the kernel could switch opportunistically to realtime scheduling if an application (like video capture) needs it, something Linux still struggles with.
On the other hand microsoft had that giant crowdstrike outage because there is no privileged security api and they need total kernel access. macos has that, microsoft just didn't want to modernize until hundreds of billions of dollars of productivity was lost by their customers
On the other hand microsoft had that giant crowdstrike outage because there is no privileged security api and they need total kernel access. macos has that, microsoft just didn't want to modernize until hundreds of billions of dollars of productivity was lost by their customers
@sun @coolboymew @hfaust per cgroup sched_ext is beginning to land into linux, so even that will reach parity soon enough
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@sun @Rocket @coolboymew @hfaust I wonder if that explains why NT had an Alpha port
@TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust @sun I think it does. It looks like MS was forced into a deal with DEC. Dave Cutler brought other DEC engineers with him and there's evidence they brought DEC code with them. Just read this yesterday after I did a quick search yesterday to confirm what I had heard years ago about VMS/WNT.
@Rocket @TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust yes that was part of the deal, microsoft was forced to port NT to Alpha. That actually ended up being good for Microsoft because they were going to dump portability, but they kept it because of that deal and later they released the xbox 360 on PowerPC
@Rocket @TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust I actually used NT on Alpha at a job lol. Somebody had one at a company I worked at for some reason.
@sun @coolboymew @hfaust yeah but wasn't the "good engineering" part of Windows NT not even made at Microsoft?
@feld @coolboymew @hfaust they poached people to remake it
https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_alliance_with_legal_threat
https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_alliance_with_legal_threat