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heiowge · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:30 am Post subject: Linux had that first

Any chance of an article on things that we beat Windows or Apple to? Stuff they take credit for that they nicked off us? Not that I'm bitter, but it's nice to really rub their noses in it occasionally!

ta. Laughing

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Oh well! · Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:02 pm Posts: 35

I like that idea. But . .. hang on a minute. Didn't Apple invent the rectangle! Linux ain't beating that. (Or was it all just in the weird imagination of Apple's legal department?)

nelz · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject:

I know your game. You'll wait until LXF publishes such an article then claim that you thought of it first and start a patent suit Shocked

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External_Floppy · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:56 pm Post subject:

Rhakios · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:59 am Post subject:

heiowge · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:09 am Post subject:

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject:

Didn't Linux fans coin the word "Windoze" Smile

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godofthedevil · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:44 am Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject:

AmigaOS had pre-emptive multitasking many years before Linux even started.
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Nuke · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:05 pm Post subject: Re : Linux Firsts

64 bit processing, several years before Windows.

It reflects the fact that the marketing droids never made much of 64-bit processing - if they had then Windows would have been much earlier with it and trumpeting the fact.

And yet even now the LXF cover disks have yet to catch up with it Crying or Very sad

towy71 · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Re : Linux Firsts

nelz · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject:

Or is it that you haven't caught up with the cover discs?
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject:

Why are there no 128 bit distros on the cover disks?
The world is out there.
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Bruno · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

You'll want distros compiled as ternaries next Cool

nelz · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

There's a 96 bit distro on DVD155, that will have to do you for now.
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