▲ 182 ▼ Windows CE, Microsoft’s stunted middle child, reaches end of support at 26 years (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.ml 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago (2 children) How could even Microsoft release a product named WinCE? I've marveled at it for decades. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca [S] 23 points 2 years ago* (3 children) We're talking about the company that once released a utility called the Critical Update Notification Tool (then quickly changed "Tool" to "Utility" when people started laughing). Abbreviations were never their strength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update#Critical_Update_Notification_Utility permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Some of that has to be engineers taking the piss. We are all the same kind of geek-ass bastard, and we love this kind of stupid thing. IIRC, IBM's PowerPC chips had some of their instructions renamed in 1994. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating "ex-" words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there's no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I had somehow missed that one. Thanks for giving me something else to laugh about. permalink fedilink source parent [+] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I never noticed that for years. Now I can’t unread that word anymore. Thanks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Glad I could help. :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca [S] 23 points 2 years ago* (3 children) We're talking about the company that once released a utility called the Critical Update Notification Tool (then quickly changed "Tool" to "Utility" when people started laughing). Abbreviations were never their strength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update#Critical_Update_Notification_Utility permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Some of that has to be engineers taking the piss. We are all the same kind of geek-ass bastard, and we love this kind of stupid thing. IIRC, IBM's PowerPC chips had some of their instructions renamed in 1994. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating "ex-" words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there's no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I had somehow missed that one. Thanks for giving me something else to laugh about. permalink fedilink source parent [+] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Some of that has to be engineers taking the piss. We are all the same kind of geek-ass bastard, and we love this kind of stupid thing. IIRC, IBM's PowerPC chips had some of their instructions renamed in 1994. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating "ex-" words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there's no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I had somehow missed that one. Thanks for giving me something else to laugh about. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I never noticed that for years. Now I can’t unread that word anymore. Thanks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Glad I could help. :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Glad I could help. :-) permalink fedilink source parent