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Windows: The battle for an open standard

Published on Sat, May 4th 2024 Science & Technology Rectangular HD

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By the end of the 90s the Unix workstation world had worked out that windows was a developing threat. How could they complete, well may windows could become a standard API they could provide an implementation of.

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00:00 - Intro
01:11 - A Brief work from our sponsors
01:41 - The world of workstations
04:29 - The rise of windows
05:20 - Sun PC
05:50 - Wabi
10:27 - Word 6 the Trojan Horse
13:37 - PWI An open Windows Spec
14:22 - Open standards bodies
16:35 - 1995 Win32 is here, but so is Java
17:38 - Sun refocuses on Servers
19:40 - Sun PCi, the PC on a card
21:51 - Sun starts making x86_64 servers/workstations
22:06 - Wine, and the legacy of PWI
24:20 - Thanks

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