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Windows at 1000 Frames Per Second: The Raymond Chen
Windows at 1000 Frames Per Second: The Raymond Chen Interview
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This man is a national treasure.
I read The Old New Thing cover to cover. Fascinating stuff. Some of the topics covered here are also covered in the book, for those curious. I'm glad you two have taken a moment to talk about old Microsoft.
30 years at Microsoft and never met the big man himself Bill ? I assumed he was going to say, him and Bill are great friends, play golf together, etc… I love Raymond's energy and personality. Very happy, zany and funny! His ability to recall all the facts is incredible! Incredibly knowledgeable. Great listening to this.
Dave, kudos for documenting the history and folklore of Microsoft. So many good stories 🙂
Please continue with these awesome guests. I didn't know any of them before, but it is really important to learn from the giants who came before and whose shoulders we stand on. I've learned a lot and gained a tremendous amount of respect for the guests you've had on, and for you too Dave. Thank you!
"What part of this job keeps you coming back?"
"The health insurance."
Feel that.
Can you get someone who knows about the Intel i860 and iAPX 432?
Raymond is such a wealth of knowledge. It's about time Bill Gates met him
What a cool dude.
1:26:12 there's a cut and it sounds like a transition to a discussion about hard disks slowing down got lost!
"Make Raymond wear normal clothes day" – I love it… Somehow these things don't happen in today's work environments anymore.
Just out of curiosity, was Window 11's code name Verschlimmbesserung?
After all the performance is worse, in my opinion the taskbar has become complete garbage, the menu is trash, the stability is a big joke, the patches are a bit of a wild west if they will shoot you, or not and it makes any computer before 2018 e-waste. Considering most people couldn't get a proper computer from about 2019-2021, that means most computers simply cannot run it because it requires the use of the insecure TPM 2.0 module.
Why do I think that TPM 2.0 is insecure? It is called US law. Any companies making "high security" chip that will be sold in the US is required to have a backdoor, or built in security vulnerability. It is also required for any chips made in the US that will be sold externally. There are other countries, such as India, that have these same requirements.
Therefore, we know that TPM 2.0 almost definitely have a flaw, or backdoor, that usually doesn't take long for nefarious people to find, thus it is insecure, but will make a ton of e-waste.
I did not expect to watch all of this, but here I am at the end…
Dave, I own and operate a PC repair business. I LOVE watching and listening to these interviews. SO riveting. Keep them coming! Thank you!
P.S. love your style, man!
57:30 modern TweakUI? Winaero Tweaker
2:01:00 – I remember back when I did development in DJGPP, Windows wouldn't crash if you dereferenced a NULL pointer but CWSDPMI would. So if you had a bug it would silently work and you wouldn't find out about it until you restarted into DOS to test it.
t=4940 : Frustrationsverzweiflungswut would be a valid but not common German word for frustration/sadness/rage
Yes, please bring more interviews!
56:50 oh yes, I see this problem in many apps today.
You try to select something from a drop-down, but if you are just one pixel off — the entire thing collapses or a different drop-down opens.
amazing to listen to.
Haha loved the Friendly Giant ending! Awesome interview!
What a class act, Raymond Chen. I've never seen him in person, but wow he seems like such a great human being. His book is brilliant, highly recommended even if you're not keenly interested in Windows
1:57:35 Guy writes a JIT compiler to generate opcodes to execute in milliseconds to come but wants to do his work 6–9 months ahead of time to avoid stress of meeting his personal deadline. Respect.
Windows sucks
1:36:15 This sounds like 1st gen red team stuff!
"Cart of death" should be a term for such test cases where you compose a use case which is as complex as possible and yet easy to run in the same time.
29:00 The only sensible way to allow end users to select timezones is to allow them to point a map and allow them to select one of the (e.g.) 5 closest cities with different timezones. That way if the user clicks near Israel, they get options for Israel and Palestine which are located in practically same location but sometimes use different timezone because of political reasons. Timezones are by definition political so you shouldn't assume that the timezones are constant. Instead, people follow the political timezone declarations of some (typically nearby) major city instead of choosing a country to follow.
Just check the historical timezone information for some of the cities and you'll see how much the timezones have been messed with historically. You should always assume that timezones will be messed at least equally much in the future, too.
Windows binary backwards compatibility is the biggest reason Microsoft is in the position that it currently has. And I think Raymond Chen is the single most important person for that.
Not coloring files at all is just an overall degradation. Like, should we also remove pedals from cars even though some people can't use them? No.
Oh man I would live to know what went wrong in MS software development in the early days that resulted in the products they have produced over the years. For over thirty years this company has delivered a narrow range of statistically consistent incompetence towards developing buggy programs that are filled with inapplicable features never matching customer demands or requirements.
PowerToys was a godsend to power users everywhere! Having switched to litestep in the Win98 years on my home rig, power toys were the only thing that could get me close to comfortable when I was working in explorer on other machines. Fancy Zones is still making PowerToys proud today 👍Thanks Mr. Chen, for all your hard work!