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Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: RandomTiger on September 04, 2002, 11:39:17 am
"(Note that there is no "DirectX 4" the numbering jumps from version 3 to version 5.) "

Why?
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Stealth on September 04, 2002, 11:40:32 am
and it wouldn't suprise me one bit
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Redfang on September 04, 2002, 12:54:39 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
and it wouldn't suprise me one bit

 
:nod:
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: CP5670 on September 04, 2002, 01:05:08 pm
:lol:

Is there any reason why they did that? Or are their programmers really that stupid? :D
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Redfang on September 04, 2002, 01:06:05 pm
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Originally posted by CP5670
:lol:

Is there any reason why they did that? Or are their programmers really that stupid? :D

 
Well, maybe they tried to make customers think that their software advances fast or something like that. :p
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Knight Templar on September 04, 2002, 04:57:08 pm
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Sandwich on September 04, 2002, 07:47:11 pm
Meh, that's nothing. Anyone ever see Netscape v5.0? :D
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Knight Templar on September 04, 2002, 07:54:50 pm
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Anyone ever see Netscape v5.0?


Come to think of it....... i haven't..... HEY!!
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Gortef on September 05, 2002, 02:58:01 am
Actually there is no Leisure Suit Larry 4 either :D

To tell you the truth, I didn't notice DX4 missing at all :p
But it's still quite funny ;)
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Nico on September 05, 2002, 06:54:06 am
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Originally posted by Gortef
Actually there is no Leisure Suit Larry 4 either :D


lol, but that was for the joke :D
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: an0n on September 05, 2002, 07:34:49 am
When there's two products which do the same thing (for example IE and Netscape) it's no uncommon for one of the competetive retards to jump a few numbers to make people think that there software is more advanced than the other companies. Also, they have a habit of never going further than 8 or 9. I'm guessing that pretty soon you'll be seeing DirectX Pro 1.
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Redfang on September 05, 2002, 08:11:09 am
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Originally posted by an0n
I'm guessing that pretty soon you'll be seeing DirectX Pro 1.

 
I don't think so... at least DX9 is coming, and then DX9.1 I think, and then DX10.
 
I doubt DX Pro 1 is coming.
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: an0n on September 05, 2002, 08:19:59 am
C'mon kids. Say it with me:
386, 486, Celeron/Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium MMX, Pentium 3, Pentium 4, Xeon.
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Blue Lion on September 05, 2002, 09:52:46 am
Who the hell cares what it's named? They can call it DirectX6000, it's just a name.
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: an0n on September 05, 2002, 09:54:25 am
Not when it comes to marketting. People in general are gullible (sp?) and will fall for cheap marketting ploys and flashy packaging.
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Blue Lion on September 05, 2002, 10:27:23 am
My point again, so? Let them fall for, who the hell cares?
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Gortef on September 05, 2002, 12:27:51 pm
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Originally posted by venom2506


lol, but that was for the joke :D


hehe, yea I know... ;)

maybe.... naah, M$ doesn't have a sense for humour... maybe ;D
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: mikhael on September 07, 2002, 10:59:36 pm
DirectX 4 did exist. It was just never released, since they changed major parts of the interfaces and created DirectX 5.

Oh, and an0n, you got it wrong. The first Celeron was a cache-starved Pentium2, anx Xeons are just cache-rich versions of P2, P3 and P4s (and they go more than two way SMP, but that's not important to most people).
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: penguin on September 08, 2002, 07:07:01 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
C'mon kids. Say it with me:
386, 486, Celeron/Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium MMX, Pentium 3, Pentium 4, Xeon.
yeah, but the Pentium thing was to get a trademark -- the earlier chips (386, 486) couldn't be trademarked (you can't trademark a number), so AMD, Cyrix, etc, came out with their "AMD 386" chips.  When the Pentium came out, AMD had to come up with their own name.  I think they called theirs the "586," IIRC :)  Then the Duron, Athlon, etc.

Some more anomolies from the MS camp:I find the whole "95" and "2000" and "XP" stuff annoying.  

Windows NT 4.0 had about 6 "Service Packs" which were no more or less than upgrades.  Why not say call it version 4.1?

"Requires Windows 98 Second Edition, with Service Pack 3 applied" seems a little more cumbersome than "Windows 7.2.3" IMHO, but I'm one of those Linux pinkos anyhow ;)
Title: OT - Microsoft cant count
Post by: Cannikin on September 09, 2002, 05:59:41 pm
Simcity, Simcity 2000, Simcity 3000... Simcity 4 :wtf: