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Skriven 2006-07-28 07:55:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5617.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 6 (Translatio
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"Matt Ion" <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote in message
news:rSVxg.248237$IK3.231119@pd7tw1no...
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> > ljpm wrote:
> >
> >>I spend a lot of time in Israel (though thankfully I am not there now),
> >>and noticed commercials for this prouct...
> >>
> >>http://www.babylon.com/display.php?id=182&tree=3&level=2
> >>
> >>It's called "Babylon 6"
> >>
> >>Made me wonder :) Did they skip over version 5 for copyright reasons???
> >
> >
> > No. (As it happens, I've worked with the product a little, providing
> > Loglan<->English dictionaries.) "Babylon 6", however, appears to be the
> > first time they have moved the release number up into the product name
> > for advertising purposes, and trademark/copyright reasons may have had
> > something to do with that. Or it could just be chance and fashion. For
> > example, look at the major releases of Java:
> >
> > Java -- 1.0
> > Java -- 1.1
> > Java 2 -- 1.2
> > Java 2 -- 1.3
> > Java 2 -- 1.4
> > Java -- 5.0
>
> Forget that... how about Windows?
>
> 1.0
Just to pick nits
Windows 2.0 - implemented overlapped windows.

> 3.0
> 3.1
> 3.11
> 95
> 95a
> 95b
> 98
> 98SE
> ME
>
> And that's just the DOS-based stuff... how about NT?
>
> NT 3.1 (yes folks, the FIRST release of Windows NT was "version 3.1")

In order to correspond with Windows 3.1.

> NT 3.5

and NT 3.51

> NT 4.0 aka Windows 2000

NT 4.0 is distinct from Windows 2000.
NT 5.0 would correspond with 2000
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/osversioninfoex_str.asp


> NT 5.x aka Windows XP

NT 5.1  is XP
>

NT 6.0 - Vista , formerly "Longhorn".

Dennis


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