Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)

seraph

The next version of Microsoft® Windows®, codenamed "Longhorn," includes exciting new features to support additional devices and enhance the operation of existing device types. In addition, Microsoft is working to streamline and simplify the driver development process for developers and manufacturers.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/ldk/default.mspx

seraph · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 8:24 am Post subject:

Longhorn Tastes the Apple

the first day of WinHEC 2004 (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) in Seattle had, as expected, a major track on Longhorn. It focused on the new user interface and what Microsoft is planning for its next-generation operating system. A big part of it could be summed up in a word: 3D.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1585533,00.asp

seraph · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 8:33 am Post subject:

PC Magazine reporter Richard Fisco finds Longhorn to have "an Apple look to it… After looking at some images and icons that grew bigger or flipped when chosen, I couldn't help but think of the dock on Apple's OS X."

http://www.spymac.com/news/forums.html?contentid=363

mosc · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 10:27 am Post subject:

paul e. · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

i agree with that

i had to find a third-party utility to turn off 'font smoothing; in OS X which slows things down considerably....

i want the ability to strip a gui down to the basics

play · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

try this:
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/overview.html

mosc · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:35 am Post subject:

play · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:42 am Post subject:

not yet. my gear situation is pitiful but I'll have a test machine in the next couple of weeks. I'd like to use that kernel as the basis for an audio OS. basicallly, one very large and extensible audio program that runs by itself so that there's less abstraction of the hardware. speed speed speed. Some people have been doing this with other applications using the Flux OSkit.

mosc · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject:

Well, well, well - so you are into hardcore computing technology. That's great! Let us know how it works out.

I used to be very adventureous in OS stuff, but lately I'm just trying to learn Flass Laughing

That's enough for me right now. Oh, and Mr. Elektro80 has me on an OSX Server course too.

play · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

u might be interested in the OSkit. sort of takes the drudgery out of os development. yeah, I'm particularly interested in micro/exo-kernel's. It seems to me that things could be much faster if OS's made effective use of the hardware.

what's flass? tried googling it but all I got was "Peter Flass" ::)

mosc · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

play · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

hehe..I thought that might have been what u meant but you never know. computers are the land of acronyms