What does all of these mean in english? (the question is in the notes)?

Question

A new, more object-oriented GUI
The new WIN32 API
Preemptive multitasking of Win32 applications
32-bit flat memory model
Protected memory
Built-in networking support, including dial-up support
New 32-bit driver model

Answer 1

A new, more object-oriented GUI:



"The old graphical user interface was so crap users were starting to commit suicide... so we redesigned it. And the word "user-friendly" is getting so passe... I know! We'll use that word I heard a programmer use the other day which means absolutely jack-all in this context!"



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The new WIN32 API



"Our competition has gotten used to what our old Application Programming Interface was and now can actually *write applications which work on Windows without bugs*. DARN! We'd better invent a new one and screw everything up."



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Preemptive multitasking of Win32 applications



A modern method of efficiently allowing more than one application to run at once. Any modern OS will have this. Windows 95 onwards I believe



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking





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32-bit flat memory model



If this is part of a Windows marketing spiel, all this means is, "This will work with a PC".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_memory_model



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Protected memory



A way to stop other applications from interfering with memory they don't own, and therefore stop most Blue Screens of Death from occurring. Any modern OS worth its salt will do this.



Windows only started doing this properly for home users from Windows XP onwards.



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Built-in networking support, including dial-up support



"Can connect to the Internet".



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New 32-bit driver model



Designed for PCs produced after 1985. Very broad usage of the word "new", as you can see.

Answer 2

GUI = Graphical User Interface

WIN32 API = WIndows 32 bit Application Programmers INterface

Answer 3

object-oriented is a programming term in how the code and variables are set up as clusters of similar information (objects) instead of everything in sequence (procedural).



GUI is a graphic user interface, or a means of interacting with your computer in a graphic way (with a mouse and icons and visual folders) instead of in a textual way.



API is sort of like a reference that programmers can use to interact with Microsoft's code. The programmers don't get to see MS's code, but they see a bunch of things they can use to interface with the code.



Preemptive multitasking allows you to do many things at the same time, the preemptive part means you get to say certain functions are more important than others.



Protected memory means that every application "owns" a certain chunk of your computer's memory and no other application can touch that memory. This is important because if one program is poorly written and messes up its own memory this shouldn't mess up how another (better written) program will run.

Answer 4

All Greek to me... I thought it was gonna be something in a diff't lang lol. Was hoping that it might be French cuz I speak French.

Answer 5

its all chinese to me!