[RandomTiger]

"(Note that there is no "DirectX 4" the numbering jumps from version 3 to version 5.) "

Why?

[Stealth]

and it wouldn't suprise me one bit

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Stealth
and it wouldn't suprise me one bit

 

[CP5670]

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

[Redfang]

Originally posted by CP5670


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

 
Well, maybe they tried to make customers think that their software advances fast or something like that.

[Knight Templar]

[Sandwich]

Meh, that's nothing. Anyone ever see Netscape v5.0?

[Knight Templar]

Anyone ever see Netscape v5.0?

Come to think of it....... i haven't..... HEY!!

[Gortef]

Actually there is no Leisure Suit Larry 4 either

To tell you the truth, I didn't notice DX4 missing at all
But it's still quite funny

[Nico]

Originally posted by Gortef
Actually there is no Leisure Suit Larry 4 either

lol, but that was for the joke

[an0n]

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.

[Redfang]

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.

[an0n]

C'mon kids. Say it with me:
386, 486, Celeron/Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium MMX, Pentium 3, Pentium 4, Xeon.

[Blue Lion]

Who the hell cares what it's named? They can call it DirectX6000, it's just a name.

[an0n]

Not when it comes to marketting. People in general are gullible (sp?) and will fall for cheap marketting ploys and flashy packaging.

[Blue Lion]

My point again, so? Let them fall for, who the hell cares?

[Gortef]

Originally posted by venom2506


lol, but that was for the joke

hehe, yea I know...

maybe.... naah, M$ doesn't have a sense for humour... maybe ;D

[mikhael]

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).

[penguin]

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:

• The first version of Windows NT was 3.1 (to keep parity w/ the 16-bit Windows version number.)
• Word for Windows went from 2.1 to 6.0 in one release -- again, parity with Word (for DOS) was the cited reason.  The subsequent release was 95.
• Windows 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 97, ME

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

[Cannikin]

Simcity, Simcity 2000, Simcity 3000... Simcity 4