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re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:56 am Posted by triplate (2305 messages posted) XP erimental security platform. triplate... On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:53 am, David wrote: >what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? is it the same as Athelon XP? if not, what >does the XP in Athelon XP stand for? if they are both XP, does this mean AThelon >XP will work better with windows XP and >isn't it some kind of legal infringement to use XP in the name of a Processor? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:58 am Posted by David (38 messages posted) why do they call the new windows "longhorn" is there some funny story behind that? does bill gates think up names for his windows? or is it his wife? does he have a wife? does his wife use windows? On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:53 am, David wrote: >what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? is it the same as Athelon XP? if not, what >does the XP in Athelon XP stand for? if they are both XP, does this mean AThelon >XP will work better with windows XP and >isn't it some kind of legal infringement to use XP in the name of a Processor? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 6:00 am Posted by triplate (2305 messages posted) Its a bar... On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:58 am, David wrote: >why do they call the new windows "longhorn" is there some funny story behind that? >does bill gates think up names for his windows? or is it his wife? does he have a >wife? does his wife use windows? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 6:27 am Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) According to Microsoft: eXPerience as in the Windows Experience... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 6:58 am Posted by 666 (2255 messages posted) XPensive software to XPloit people and XPand M$s profits. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 7:51 am Posted by Jim L (231 messages posted) Question should be "Does his wife WASH windows?" ;-) On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:58 am, David wrote: >why do they call the new windows "longhorn" is there some funny story behind that? >does bill gates think up names for his windows? or is it his wife? does he have a >wife? does his wife use windows? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:01 am Posted by DrakeTheDead (60 messages posted) Yeah, Windows XP means eXPerience, remember it doesn't say good or bad in front of it, Microsoft is just sure you will get some sort of eXPerience from it, LOL. Bill is married. She is referred to as Mrs. Bill Gates. She and Bill's foundation donate about half a billion every year to "charity". Alot of it by donating software and hardware to educational institutions thus creating more M$ loyalists or at least people who know more about Microsoft Software and little else about other competiting software offered by other companies. (I'd like to have more classes about Linux and Unix but my school only offers one class on Unix (MKS Toolkit over DOS) and they have no boxes running Unix or Linux. (I'd run a Linux box at home but like most Students I have no money and can only afford Windows (for my classes) right now!) AMD says the XP in Athlon XP means "Xtra Performance" see the last question at this URL----> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/SellAMDProducts/0,,30_177_4458_3505^3785^8428^3802,00.html Also note that both products were NOT designed as complementary products just to fool some people to think so and buy AMD Athlon XP computers, heh....(I like both AMD and Intel so bugger off! LOL) On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:53 am, David wrote: >what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? is it the same as Athelon XP? if not, what >does the XP in Athelon XP stand for? if they are both XP, does this mean AThelon >XP will work better with windows XP and >isn't it some kind of legal infringement to use XP in the name of a Processor? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:08 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted) As GM said, it stands for eXPerience. This page at PC Magazine's website is part of their annual report on service and reliability. They say that XP is the biggest reason that PC reliability improved from last year's report to this year's report. And I'm sure that if MS thought that AMD was ripping off it's name for Windows, they would be in court in 10 seconds suing them. Maybe they are taking the "imitation is flattery" point of view and are happy that AMD is calling their chip "CP." [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:19 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted) Well, of course they're not calling it CP , they're calling it XP. Lousy typing strikes again! LOL [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:21 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted) I thought I read somewhere that the codenames MS gives its upcoming products are taken from popular Northwest ski resorts. This link at the MS website has Bill Gates' bio. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:53 am Posted by Kermit (1 messages posted) Do you have internet access - preferably broadband? In 1995 I downloaded Slackware linux via 9600 baud (!) modem & installed linux on my 486. Too painful to contemplate nowadays, I agree, but I was unemployed and had no money but losts of time then. Is there a linux user's group on campus or in town? One of them would likely be happy to give up their last year's disks when they upgrade to the latest distribution. If you have a few GB to spare on your hard drive, you can set it up for dual-boot. My work PC & home PC each run both OSes. MS probably just doesn't think they'd have a chance annoying AMD over "XP". They tried to trademark "windows" back in the day, and Intel tried "586", but the courts wouldn't let them. On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:01 am, DrakeTheDead wrote: >Yeah, Windows XP means eXPerience, remember it doesn't say good or bad in front of >it, Microsoft is just sure you will get some sort of eXPerience from it, LOL. > >Bill is married. She is referred to as Mrs. Bill Gates. She and Bill's foundation >donate about half a billion every year to "charity". Alot of it by donating software >and hardware to educational institutions thus creating more M$ loyalists or at least >people who know more about Microsoft Software and little else about other competiting >software offered by other companies. (I'd like to have more classes about Linux and >Unix but my school only offers one class on Unix (MKS Toolkit over DOS) and they >have no boxes running Unix or Linux. (I'd run a Linux box at home but like most Students >I have no money and can only afford Windows (for my classes) right now!) > >AMD says the XP in Athlon XP means "Xtra Performance" see the last question at this >URL----> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/SellAMDProducts/0,,30_177_4458_3505^3785^8428^3802,00.html > >Also note that both products were NOT designed as complementary products just to >fool some people to think so and buy AMD Athlon XP computers, heh....(I like both >AMD and Intel so bugger off! LOL) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 9:04 am Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted) Here's a challenge for you. There is a product called VMWare, that will allow you to run Windows (not sure you can do XP though) from a Linux window. I'm not techie enough to understand it. One of the Linux guys where I work demo'd it for me. My son, who is a very recent CS grad, is looking at doing it as well, although he's got 5 computers as it is, so I'm not sure why he would want to do that. Also it doesn't take much to run Linux well. You can pickup a "slow" P2 for about $100. On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 8:01 am, DrakeTheDead wrote: >Yeah, Windows XP means eXPerience, remember it doesn't say good or bad in front of >it, Microsoft is just sure you will get some sort of eXPerience from it, LOL. > >Bill is married. She is referred to as Mrs. Bill Gates. She and Bill's foundation >donate about half a billion every year to "charity". Alot of it by donating software >and hardware to educational institutions thus creating more M$ loyalists or at least >people who know more about Microsoft Software and little else about other competiting >software offered by other companies. (I'd like to have more classes about Linux and >Unix but my school only offers one class on Unix (MKS Toolkit over DOS) and they >have no boxes running Unix or Linux. (I'd run a Linux box at home but like most Students >I have no money and can only afford Windows (for my classes) right now!) > >AMD says the XP in Athlon XP means "Xtra Performance" see the last question at this >URL----> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/SellAMDProducts/0,,30_177_4458_3505^3785^8428^3802,00.html > >Also note that both products were NOT designed as complementary products just to >fool some people to think so and buy AMD Athlon XP computers, heh....(I like both >AMD and Intel so bugger off! LOL) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: troubling question Monday, July 28, 2003 at 4:52 pm Posted by DrakeTheDead (60 messages posted) Thanks Ricer and Kermit, I just emailed the network tech lab assistant...I'm going to get a cheap box to run Linux...the Lab Assistant let me know that we(students) can get educationally licensed Red Hat for student use from her office and she may be able to get Solaris 7.0 from Sun also for student use. I don't want to mess up my Windows Box as I will have to start using it to multi-boot trial/beta educational licensed versions of Windows server software that we are supposed to learn about (Win2k and Win2003). On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 9:04 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Here's a challenge for you. There is a product called VMWare, that will allow you >to run Windows (not sure you can do XP though) from a Linux window. I'm not techie >enough to understand it. One of the Linux guys where I work demo'd it for me. My >son, who is a very recent CS grad, is looking at doing it as well, although he's >got 5 computers as it is, so I'm not sure why he would want to do that. > >Also it doesn't take much to run Linux well. You can pickup a "slow" P2 for about >$100. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: educationally licensed.. Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:37 pm Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) "Educationally Licensed"........??? That seems kind of silly....considering you can download the very latest version version of RedHat (RH9) from any one of a number of sites... And it's a FULL version...no "license" required.... and it's completely FREE.... But , ,if they have the disks on site , then it beats the several hours it takes to download it.... (3.09 Gigs for the full meal deal....) so I guess I can't complain.... I have my RH9 install dual booted with Win98.... I love it....I find myself using it more than Windows XP lately.... {gasp !} [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: educationally licensed.. Monday, July 28, 2003 at 7:59 pm Posted by DrakeTheDead (60 messages posted) Well, I was just repeating what she told me. I'm not dumb just uneducated. She says I need 7 CD-R's for her to burn everything I need. And yeah, I only have dial-up and downloading would be a pain! On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 5:37 pm, GM wrote: >"Educationally Licensed"........??? > >That seems kind of silly....considering you can >download the very latest version version of RedHat >(RH9) from any one of a number of sites... > >And it's a FULL version...no "license" required.... >and it's completely FREE.... > >But , ,if they have the disks on site , then it beats >the several hours it takes to download it.... >(3.09 Gigs for the full meal deal....) >so I guess I can't complain.... > >I have my RH9 install dual booted with Win98.... > >I love it....I find myself using it more than Windows XP >lately.... > {gasp !} > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum