Desktop operating systems entering Extended phase (effective date):
* Windows 95 (December 31, 2000) * Windows 98 / 98 SE (June 30, 2002)
Desktop operating systems entering Non-Supported phase (effective date): ... * Windows 95 (November 30, 2001)
I admit that Windoze 98 has not yet entered the Non-Supported phase, but a year is only twelve months, fifty-two weeks, 365.26 days, or 525600 minutes.
I'm afraid it's not that simple, Anonymous Coward. If I recall correctly, some of Windoze setup is based on an area of the CD that cannot or will not be burned onto a CD-R. (I had that problem with Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 while trying to archive it in case the CD got broken AGAIN.) Also there's a little problem of activation, which requires you to contact Microsoft within 30 days of the install if certain conditions are met, and CD Keys, and, and... It would just be simpler to buy an Open Licensing Agreement and pay $49k for 1000 copies. That way you'd get a special CD and CD Key which you COULD pirate. Or, purchase the Windoze NT 5 Chinese Edition source for a few hundred heads and work with that.
For example, I should be able to type user-defined abbreviations and have the OS replace them with what they represent. I should be able to type "deja vu" and have the OS input dictionary automatically replace it with "déjà vu" and so on. We should be able to use the tab key for autocompletion and substitution, so if I type e/ then tap the tab key, it might replace e/ with é, and so on.
Microsoft introduced that functionality into DOS when they added ANSI.SYS, the device driver that replaces the CONsole device to allow techs to use the same escape codes they used for terminal sessions for example ^[(control-left bracket, the Escape key)[2J to clear the screen or ^[[33;44m to change colors. Although you need to go through the process of setting up the driver, it's just a one-time addition of one line to CONFIG.SYS and just a few to AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Also, you could simply switch keyboard layouts in DOS without going through the same change for your monitor. I remember memorizing those "dead keys" where you could enter é by pressing 'e and ' by pressing ' twice.
The particular quote mentioned here is not backwards. Instead, the purpose of the comma is to set off the appositive marked in bold
Technology using tunneling magnetoresitance (TMR) or giant magnetoresistance (GMR) will probably not achieve the present goal for magnetic recording research, hard drive densities of a terabit per square inch.
I agree that it doesn't flow all that well, and that "the present goal..." should switch with "hard drive...", but it is not backwards in its present form. Yet.
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Desktop operating systems entering Extended phase (effective date):
* Windows 95 (December 31, 2000)
* Windows 98 / 98 SE (June 30, 2002)
Desktop operating systems entering Non-Supported phase (effective date):
...
* Windows 95 (November 30, 2001)
I admit that Windoze 98 has not yet entered the Non-Supported phase, but a year is only twelve months, fifty-two weeks, 365.26 days, or 525600 minutes.
I'm afraid it's not that simple, Anonymous Coward. If I recall correctly, some of Windoze setup is based on an area of the CD that cannot or will not be burned onto a CD-R. (I had that problem with Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 while trying to archive it in case the CD got broken AGAIN.) Also there's a little problem of activation, which requires you to contact Microsoft within 30 days of the install if certain conditions are met, and CD Keys, and, and... It would just be simpler to buy an Open Licensing Agreement and pay $49k for 1000 copies. That way you'd get a special CD and CD Key which you COULD pirate. Or, purchase the Windoze NT 5 Chinese Edition source for a few hundred heads and work with that.
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Also, you could simply switch keyboard layouts in DOS without going through the same change for your monitor. I remember memorizing those "dead keys" where you could enter é by pressing 'e and ' by pressing ' twice.
I agree that it doesn't flow all that well, and that "the present goal..." should switch with "hard drive...", but it is not backwards in its present form. Yet.