| What OS is The Computer based on? |
| Windows: Bloated, buggy, slow, and nigh-unstoppable. |
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60% |
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| Macintosh: Sure, it's polite and cute on the outside, but pure cunning evil inside. |
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26% |
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| Linux: High Programmers love open-source! And it ain't called REDhat for nothing. |
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13% |
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| Burg-R-KNG-1 |
 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: What OS is The Computer based on? |
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So, if Our Friend was originally designed from a modern (circa 2005) operating system, who's copyright would be in The Computer's code?
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| Adam-R-LON-1 |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Ha ha ha ha ha! I cracked up when I saw that title.
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| Konlii |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:40 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... The Computer has the you-will-bow-down-to-me-and-like-it personality coupled with the we-know-how-to-run-your-life-better-than-you-do mentality inherent in all Microsoft products... so I'm going to have to go with Windows.
Of course, no self-respecting High Programmer would be satisfied with that, so you just know somebody snuck Linux in there at some point.
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| Whyleek-I-OTE |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:22 am Post subject: |
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LINUX is what the Computer Phreaks use (and of course, the odd high programmer as well)
Macintosh is much too stable an OS system to be our beloved friends OS source system.
And what, no mention of OS-2? The code that brought down those incredibly stoopid aliens in Independence Day?
But, the system with consistently discovered security holes, need for patches, integration with everything, susceptibility to glitches and viruses, it has to be Windows. Probably a Win XP desktop trying to run through a WinNT backbone (shudder...US Treasury actually HAD this hideous combo just after Y2K).
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| Allandaros |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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WinME. When it's the Blue Screen of Death, it really is the Blue Screen of Death.
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| Biggles |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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Since The Computer is such a highly distributed program thingie, I'd say it runs on many different kinds of OS, sometimes all at once.
Windows, Linux, MacOS, DOS ... and that's just the OS. Imagine all the languages that UV's have to know, going all the way back to Cobol and Fortran. I even think some comp nodes are wired into TRS-80s and Commodore 64s.
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| Burg-R-KNG-1 |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Heh. I just had the mental image of my old childhood Commodore VIC-20 acting as a sector's compnode, complete with cassette tape drive ("PRESS PLAY TO LOAD PROGRAM") and "fast" 300 baud modem.
For you n00bs, behold the VIC-20 in all of it's 5KB, 1.0227 Mhz glory!
But, to get back on topic, now that I think about it... it has the be Linux. In my experience, only Linux has the ability to develop the same kind of religious fanatical devotion that FCCC-P has for The Computer.
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| Tombking |
| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Burg-R-KNG-1 wrote: |
But, to get back on topic, now that I think about it... it has the be Linux. In my experience, only Linux has the ability to develop the same kind of religious fanatical devotion that FCCC-P has for The Computer. |
nhhaaa.... Linux got there REDhat clones.. I go with Win 0,003 !
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| Javacake |
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Windows - it's all-controlling, over-complicated bloatware, created and maintained by obsessives who are paranoid about people gaining access to their highly secret knowledge in c ase some form of freedom is attained.
The Computer is much the same. 
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| Xiphoid |
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No way  is anything except Windows.
As for the VIC-20, I can't imagine how we ever got by without internal hard drives. Yikes. |
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| Cam-R-ONN-1 |
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| I'd say Windows, although recent lawsuitage over the Paranoia XP edition may make that assumption treasonous. |
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| Adam-R-LON-1 |
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You know, six years later I really have no idea what I found so funny.
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| Phial |
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Perhaps a return to the medication you were on at the time?
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