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Post by Crissa » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:07 am

Yeah, they promised the kernal that was in XP for what became 95, but did not deliver.
And NT took over the file handling of... VMS? V something. But they didn't bring it to non-corporate customers until it was about twelve years late.
I was pretty pissed at 95, looking under the hood it was a horrible, horrible kludge. And even XP was saddled with the terrible idea of the registry that they created for windows 95.
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Post by Josh_Kablack » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:07 am

IIRC, Capcom counts like this:
2
2 championship edition
2 hyper fighting
2 the new challengers
2 turbo
2 super turbo
vs Xmen
alpha
alpha 2
alpha 3
vs Marvel
3
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Post by Koumei » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:49 am

> Josh_Kablack wrote:IIRC, Capcom counts like this:
> 2
> 2 championship edition
> 2 hyper fighting
> 2 the new challengers
> 2 turbo
> 2 super turbo
> vs Xmen
> alpha
> alpha 2
> alpha 3
> vs Marvel
> 3

There's also Super 2 (before Super 2 Turbo), and Alpha is known as Zero in some countries. So it's 1, 2, 0, 3, 4 if you don't include stuff like X-Men vs Street Fighter, Super SF 2 Turbo and EX Plus.

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Post by Cynic » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:29 pm

> Koumei wrote:So it's 1, 2, 0, 3, 4...

Koumei, you were just told off by my 3-year-old that you can't count.
Sorry.

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Post by RandomCasualty2 » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:51 pm

> Crissa wrote: I was pretty pissed at 95, looking under the hood it was a horrible, horrible kludge. And even XP was saddled with the terrible idea of the registry that they created for windows 95.

I haven't used Vista or Win7 enough to know... did they ever get rid of the registry in any of those?
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Post by cthulhu » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:58 am

The registry is one of a number of solutions for ugly problems. Like 'how does the OS know what to do with files you double click on' that actually have no good solutions. Vista and 7 still use one, but it's a very different beast from WinXP's version.
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Post by Heath Robinson » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:58 am

Yeah, the Registry is just used badly by most programs. Raymond Chen has given a number of reasons for the switch to using the Windows Registry. This basically reads as a summary of the advantages of the Windows Registry.
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