D&D vs Windows

thedungeondelver

Adventurer

• Aug 19, 2007

• #21

OD&D = UNIX System V
AD&D = IRIX
2nd Edition AD&D = Windows 95
3rd Edition AD&D = Windows 98
4th Edition AD&D = Windows 98SE

 

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DreadPirateMurphy

Explorer

• Aug 19, 2007

• #22

Plane Sailing said:

Not even close! You kids today, what do you know about operating systems?

DOS 3.3
DOS 4.0 (not significant)
DOS 5.0 (significant)
Windows 2.03 (first real commercial Windows
Windows 386 (supported the 386 chip)
Windows 3.0 (started to get popular)
Windows 3.1 (bugs ironed out, started to get very popular)
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (networked windows)

Then you get Win 95->Win 98->Win ME and then it dead-ends there, plus
NT 3.1 ->NT3.5 -> NT4 -> Win 2000 -> Win XP -> WinXPsp2 -> Vista

On the D&D side, you're missing early editions there too.

OD&D (white box)
OD&D (white box + supplements (Greyhawk/Blackmoor/Eldritch wizardry etc)
Basic D&D
AD&D1e etc

So no, I don't think it is a good analogy

Cheers

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OMG, Plane Sailing, do you actually remember all those? Windows 2.x was such a useless beast -- you could still run DOS 6.0 with the menuing interface, IIRC. I also remember WFW, back before Windows became the NOS.

To really make the analogy between 4E and Vista complete, the online stuff should allow you to add home rules, but every time it comes up, it should ask you, "Did you initiate the use of that home rule, and do you want to continue?"

Does the PHB count as the home addition, vs. the DMG as the business edition? Makes more sense to have one be the client and the other the server OS.

There have got to be other ways to beat this analogy into the ground.

 

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DreadPirateMurphy

Explorer

• Aug 19, 2007

• #23

I almost forgot:

"640K experience points should be enough for anybody."

 

Halivar

First Post

• Aug 19, 2007

• #24

PS, you forgot one link in the chain:

NT 3.1 ->NT3.5 -> NT4 -> Win 2000 -> Win XP -> WinXPsp2 -> Windows Server 2K3 -> Vista

All server and client OS's since 2000 are built from the same development tree.

 

howandwhy99

Adventurer

• Aug 19, 2007

• #25

Just to beat Diaglo to the punch, it's:
2000ed
3.11ed for Workgroups
oo00!!VIST4!!00oo

 

evildmguy

Explorer

• Aug 19, 2007

• #26

I liked this as I heard bad things about ME.

Further, I think it applies to gamers in many ways.

edg

 

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frankthedm

First Post

• Aug 19, 2007

• #27

evildmguy said:

I liked this as I heard bad things about ME.

Further, I think it applies to gamers in many ways.

edg

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LOL