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#1 CUViper

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Posted 19 November 2000 - 11:26 PM

simple question.... what was the codename for win2k? I was explaining to my friends that whistler is just the codename for the next os, and they asked me what win2k's codename was, and I can't for the life of me remember it....

#2 INFERNO2000

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Posted 19 November 2000 - 11:33 PM

easiest thing to do is refer to Whistler as 2001, like MS did at Comdex

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Posted 20 November 2000 - 04:06 AM

Yeah, I can't remember either. I think that Win98 was "Memphis", but I was so used to seeing Win2K referred to as "NT 5.0" that I can't think of what the official codename was.

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#4 jdulmage

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Posted 20 November 2000 - 04:38 AM

The only codenames I can remember were

Chicago
Memphis
Millennium
Asteroid
Oydessy
Neptune
Whistler

that's all I can think of....

#5 jdulmage

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Posted 20 November 2000 - 06:07 AM

well, I just talked to Paul Thurott, you'd think we would know. He tells me there was never a codename for Windows 2000.

#6 trasher

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 01:30 AM

Wasn't it Cairo?

#7 Bursar

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 01:51 AM

I think Cairo was the codename for a Win95 front end to be bolted on to Windows NT 3.51.

In the end MS canned it and we got what is now NT 4.

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 01:53 AM

Oh, and don't forget Blackcombe. The codename for the OS after Whistler. That's going to be the 'true' melding of the 9x and NT families if you believe the rumours.

#9 jdulmage

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 04:09 AM

BlackComb!! not blackcombe...if you know anything about Canadian mountains, you'll know that it's BlackComb and they are naming the OS after the mountain in British Columbia..

BlackComb is being done from stratch

#10 clutch

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 06:32 AM

Canada? Is that the place that has all those beer commercials with the bear?

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#11 jdulmage

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 06:56 AM

yeah, it's also the place where we can actually decide our leader without whining and crying..

#12 clutch

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 08:14 AM

According to CrazyKillerMan, it doesn't sound so hot...
http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000190-2.html

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#13 jdulmage

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 06:38 PM

::Sarcasm::

wow...according to one whole person...yeah..CrazyKillerMan must know everything about how Canada is run...

::end::

We could easily defeat United States, all we would have to do is invade you guys with affordable housing and good health care and you guys would be "noooooo, affordable housing and good health care!! in the US!!! I must flee!!"

We would win the war in a week with those plans

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#14 clutch

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Posted 02 December 2000 - 07:38 PM

sarcasm

Or you could simply hack all the tech support databases with your ideas, and then the country would be paralyzed in a DOS-frenzy...

/sarcasm

Don't take things to seriously....

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