Re: [chat] CLI Version of Windows?

[Lester Cheung <lcheung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about adding Linux binary compatibility like BSDs?


On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:58:14PM +1000, invisible ink wrote:
> According to Rob Short, the vice-president of Windows Core Technology, there
> may be a CLI-only version of Windows in the wings...
> 
>   Q: Why is there no command line only version?
> 
>   A: We're looking longer term to see what can be done, looking at the
>      layers and what's available at each layer and how do we make it much
>      closer to the thing the Linux guys have -- having only the pieces you
>      want running. That's something Linux has that's ahead of us, but we're
>      looking at it. We will have a command line-only version, but whether
>      it'll have all the features in is another matter. A lot of the tools
>      depend on having the graphical interface. Printing, for example,
>      requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the "what you see
>      is what you get" model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff
>      to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem.
> 
> Fear. Interesting article though, covers a lot of competitive points, and
> how MS is actually having to do a lot of work to keep up / match / overtake
> the Linux world...
> 
>   http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133899,00.html
> 
> - ii
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