Could you have done better?
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I have seen a figure put against it of approx £620 million but bearing in mind there have been numerous contributors to just the source code alone, it would be impossible to put an exact figure to it. One thing is for sure though, with that type of money and development team it would be a fantastic distro. 
Yeah... At the end of the day, the Kernel was written by one guy... The KDE Desktop... By one guy... Some of the best things that have come onto a computer have often been done.. By one guy.
It takes a team to take that project to the next level of course, but with Open Source, that team has the potential to be unbeatable, even by MS.
A very simliar thing to Linux, or rather *nix is somethign called MiNT on the Atari Platform... Its shocking just how powerful it makes Atari Computers ( Not the ST as much as the real ones ) but that has now developed from one mans code to allow multitasking on the Atari ST, all the way to a fully functioning hyperthreading pre-emptive OS that has the power of Linux, yet can run both Linux and Atari code side by side withotu emulation.... From any Disk partitioned in any way you like... FAT / Minix / ext2fs etc... Not even the PC does that... Yet... Not without some form of Emulation anyway.
It takes a team to take that project to the next level of course, but with Open Source, that team has the potential to be unbeatable, even by MS.
A very simliar thing to Linux, or rather *nix is somethign called MiNT on the Atari Platform... Its shocking just how powerful it makes Atari Computers ( Not the ST as much as the real ones ) but that has now developed from one mans code to allow multitasking on the Atari ST, all the way to a fully functioning hyperthreading pre-emptive OS that has the power of Linux, yet can run both Linux and Atari code side by side withotu emulation.... From any Disk partitioned in any way you like... FAT / Minix / ext2fs etc... Not even the PC does that... Yet... Not without some form of Emulation anyway.
They're sort of backwards compatible - although MS would rather the manufacturers wrote drivers for the new driver model. But with older devices, this wasn't really going to be feasible.FirebarUK said:
Creative said:
From this: http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1694
Quite a good description of what's changed.
The primary consumer selling point for the new audio stack is that it is "hi-fi" or high fidelity. It has been designed to support playback of up to 64-bit samples (which is probably not turned on yet because not even the highest end HiFi equipment run at that level yet). XP's audio stack could only playback 16-bit samples.
XP was required to support a load of legacy audio standards, for example, ISA sound cards, ADLIB etc. All of this is years in the past now and so Microsoft took the opportunity to completely rewrite it for Vista so that is fresh and free from legacy constraints.
XP was required to support a load of legacy audio standards, for example, ISA sound cards, ADLIB etc. All of this is years in the past now and so Microsoft took the opportunity to completely rewrite it for Vista so that is fresh and free from legacy constraints.