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Wesley J. Landaker
Dec 25, 2012, 6:00:01 PM12/25/12
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On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 08:25:37 Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Mistikos Nik dijo [Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:50:57PM +1000]:
> > Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
> > versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
>
> Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's
> clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7 < 8. Or of the MacOS
> documentation authors, where everybody knows the respective positions
> of the Pumas, Tigers, Cheetas, Panthers and other such animals. Or of
> the Ubuntu Double-Daring Synchronized Snakes.
Oooh, don't forget 2000 and NT. (I'm not sure you can put those in a linear
list, though!)
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> Mistikos Nik dijo [Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:50:57PM +1000]:
> > Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
> > versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
>
> Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's
> clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7 < 8. Or of the MacOS
> documentation authors, where everybody knows the respective positions
> of the Pumas, Tigers, Cheetas, Panthers and other such animals. Or of
> the Ubuntu Double-Daring Synchronized Snakes.
Oooh, don't forget 2000 and NT. (I'm not sure you can put those in a linear
list, though!)
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Robert Waldner
Dec 25, 2012, 6:50:02 PM12/25/12
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:49:53 -0700, "Wesley J. Landaker" writes:
>>> Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
>>> versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
>> Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's
>> clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7 < 8. Or of the MacOS
>> documentation authors, where everybody knows the respective positions
>> of the Pumas, Tigers, Cheetas, Panthers and other such animals. Or of
>> the Ubuntu Double-Daring Synchronized Snakes.
>Oooh, don't forget 2000 and NT. (I'm not sure you can put those in a linear
>list, though!)
WfW 3.11 < Win95 < Win98 < WinME
NT3.51 < NT4 < Win2000 < XP < Vista < 7 < 8
Next one can do a proper NT timeline, MSDOS and the non-Workgroups
Windoses ;-)
cheers,
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Lennart Sorensen
Jan 11, 2013, 1:50:02 PM1/11/13
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:40:23AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:49:53 -0700, "Wesley J. Landaker" writes:
> >>> Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
> >>> versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
>
> >> Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's
> >> clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7 < 8. Or of the MacOS
> >> documentation authors, where everybody knows the respective positions
> >> of the Pumas, Tigers, Cheetas, Panthers and other such animals. Or of
> >> the Ubuntu Double-Daring Synchronized Snakes.
>
> >Oooh, don't forget 2000 and NT. (I'm not sure you can put those in a linear
> >list, though!)
>
> Parallel tracks, off the top of my head:
>
> WfW 3.11 < Win95 < Win98 < WinME
> NT3.51 < NT4 < Win2000 < XP < Vista < 7 < 8
>
> Next one can do a proper NT timeline, MSDOS and the non-Workgroups
> Windoses ;-)
And of course some were 16 bit on DOS, and it does go all the way back
>
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:49:53 -0700, "Wesley J. Landaker" writes:
> >>> Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
> >>> versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
>
> >> Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's
> >> clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7 < 8. Or of the MacOS
> >> documentation authors, where everybody knows the respective positions
> >> of the Pumas, Tigers, Cheetas, Panthers and other such animals. Or of
> >> the Ubuntu Double-Daring Synchronized Snakes.
>
> >Oooh, don't forget 2000 and NT. (I'm not sure you can put those in a linear
> >list, though!)
>
> Parallel tracks, off the top of my head:
>
> WfW 3.11 < Win95 < Win98 < WinME
> NT3.51 < NT4 < Win2000 < XP < Vista < 7 < 8
>
> Next one can do a proper NT timeline, MSDOS and the non-Workgroups
> Windoses ;-)
to version 1, and some were 32 bit on DOS, and then the NT ones are 32
or 64 bit, and there are the server variants too.
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