[TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)

[John Husvar]

On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

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> Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> Good advice Dave;
>> But I did that already, well, last year.
>> Gotta admit that Win XP is a heck of a lot more stable than '98 and 
>> it's predicessors was.
>> A lot of the frustration seems to arise out of B Gate's screwing with 
>> the competition and me rooting for the underdog in the face of it.
>> I knew another smith who was like that once......pF
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> 	XP uses a POSIX kernel, so it is essentially a UNIX system with a 
> really lousy window management system wrapped around it.  Ironic.

And some people have the unbelievable gall to sniff at Macs, which have 
been based on Unix for the last several iterations of their OS! :)

<snark_mode_ON>
I was one of them before I went over to the Light Side and built up a 
G4 out of a used G3 from Ebay and installed OS X 1.2.8. I might have 
the only brand new something-year-old Mac around these parts.
</snark_mode_OFF>

OS X is built on/in a BSD Unix subsystem, but of course, Macs do it 
well with a really good window management system built into it 
(variation on X-Windows, IIRC - Terry would know for sure) rather than 
wrapped around it. Nyah, nyah! :P

It's _possible_ to crash a Mac, but you have to work at it. Since I 
built it, this thing's been stable as my anvil with no temptations to 
use it for one, unlike my wife's XP box.

BTW: XP likes mucho RAM to roll around in and so does OS X. The more 
you install, the faster the machine goes.

Unix/linux has always see,ed better in some ways than MS-Stuff, but I 
have to admit XP's almost a real OS and Mickey$oft's programmers are no 
slouches - even though they do write some of the most bloated code in 
the Known Universe:)

Next step: A G5 2.5 GHz dual processor -- for no good reason whatever. 
<sigh> All I need is money.:)