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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by cube00 »

schmichael wrote: post #23
cube00 wrote: post #18

v1.0-pre and v1.0 share the same internal version number (rup 206, "Beta 2") but differ in ~99 of 111 shared source files [1] While I shouldn't complain because they just won't do these releases in the future and I accept it was a different time; I still find it surprising Microsoft didn't have better version control considering they took it seriously enough to build their own internal version control system (SLM). […

Microsoft had just acquired SourceSafe in 1995, but it's not clear to me how similar to modern version control systems SourceSafe even was in 1995/6. It may have been more of a distributed lock manager than change management system.

SLM was at version 1.5 by 1988 and looking at chapter 5 suggests it had strong version number and external release management [1]

[1]: https://fpga.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SLM-1.5-Guides.p...

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by monknomo »

schmichael wrote: post #23
cube00 wrote: post #18

v1.0-pre and v1.0 share the same internal version number (rup 206, "Beta 2") but differ in ~99 of 111 shared source files [1] While I shouldn't complain because they just won't do these releases in the future and I accept it was a different time; I still find it surprising Microsoft didn't have better version control considering they took it seriously enough to build their own internal version control system (SLM). […

Microsoft had just acquired SourceSafe in 1995, but it's not clear to me how similar to modern version control systems SourceSafe even was in 1995/6. It may have been more of a distributed lock manager than change management system.

When I used visual source safe it was primarily more like a lock manager. I don't recollect what it did in terms of file versioning, but I definitely remember having to bug someone to let go of a file I needed

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by monknomo »

bdsa wrote: post #29
ahartmetz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad. It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it now? Why not?! Have you tried Copilot?" Etc... (I know about title inflation, he's probably not in charge of all that much, but still)

That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...

here's the creator on his creation: https://kurlander.net/DJ/Projects/ComicChat/resources

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by EvanAnderson »

monknomo wrote: post #34
bdsa wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...

here's the creator on his creation: https://kurlander.net/DJ/Projects/ComicChat/resources

Thank you. This should be a top-level comment.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by Cshaya »

unfunco wrote: post #14

Only tangentially related, but I'm convinced Comic Sans is the best font option available in Slack, and everyone should try it.

I don't know if this is should be called heresy or genius, but I've just updated my Slack for the next 7 days. Let's see how long I last
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