Talk:Windows XP

We really need a dedicated page for technologies that span all of Windows, like DirectX - I've stumbled on an early beta/rc release of directX 8.0 for Windows 2000.

The build of the main directx files is: 5.1.2258.219 built by: Lab06_N(mmbuild). The timestamp on these files is: Wed Oct 18 05:21:31 2000

According to the wiki Page Windows:XP, this timestamp would place the build right before the first Beta build of Whistler, yet the nearest build, 2257 would have been compiled months earlier - Inferring that directX 8 was derived from work done on the NT 5.1 branch up through Milestone 1, and into Beta 1's timeframe.

Now, combined with the information below, collected over a year ago by my own documenting, it would appear that these files would have come along with the factory.exe build, which may have been an internal Beta 1 build, bundled with all the appropriate directX 8.0 enhancements.

From the Whistler WinPE builds, the following files and versions were found:

Whistler WinPE Build 2296.1 has:

factory.exe, 5.1.2292.1 (beta1 001018-1846)

schannel.dll, 5.1.2296.0 (beta1 001024-1150)

adpu160m.sys, 5.1.2264.1 (lab01_N(peterwie) 000824-0817) cpqarry2.sys cpqfcalm.sys sparrow.sys SYM_HI.sys sym_u3.sys symc8xx.sys symc810.sys symmpi.sys

aic78u2.sys, 5.1.2278.1 (beta1(peterwie) 000930-1744) aic78xx.sys

hpn.sys, 5.1.2284.1 (beta1(peterwie) 001008-1854) perc2.sys, 5.1.2284.1 (beta1(peterwie) 001008-1854)

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Whistler WinPE Build 2462 has:

smcirda.sys, 5.1.2250.2

ip5515.sys, 5.1.2257.1

emu10k1.sys, 5.1.2406.1

cpqarry2.sys, 5.1.2409.1 (ReleaseBinaries 001205-1804) dpti2o.sys sparrow.sys sym_hi.sys symc8xx.sys symc810.sys

adpu160m.sys, 5.1.2419.1 (Lab01_N 010116-0152)

perc2hib.sys, 5.1.2441.1 (beta2 010218-0157)

hpn.sys, 5.1.2451.1 (beta2(johnstra) 010218-0157) perc2.sys

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~jimmsta