On 07/14/16 12:42 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
Hmm. I didn't run into anyone who was a dyed-in-the-wool Apple fan who
wasn't over-the-moon excited about OSX. I thought it was pretty cool,
myself. However, on freeware UNIX variants I'm the guy who often just gets
sick of having graphics at all (even though I use Fluxbox 90% of the time)
and drops down to the framebuffer console for a while for a refreshing
break. :-) So, OSX was too "slick" for me. I (mostly) like my UNIX uncut.
:-)
I'm missing something here. Although most did/are using the Apple supplied
GUI/Aqua, it wasn't a requirement.
I have/run OpenWindows (compiled for OS X/PPC), and also, although mostly for
fun, have a copy of the Mosaic web browser, also compiled for OS X/PPC.
Aside from the Netinfo directory server, from a basic level, you can pretty much
do & run anything you would on Solaris, Unix, *BSD or Lunix. What OS X didn't
ship with wasn't too hard to compile on my own.
-up OS. In my experience, more stable than OS/2 >=2.
I've spent all of about five minutes with OS/2. After working for IBM for
years, and watching that drama just soured me on touching it. I might have
liked it, though. Who knows? It just didn't have hardly any software I
cared about and I had 100% certainty that IBM would screw it up.
In defense of OS/2, I went from straight DOS to OS/2 1.3. I was taking a lot of
college programming classes, and in Assembly language specifically, I found any
number of ways to blow things up and loose my work. OS/2 truly provided a
"better DOS than DOS", and I could blow up a DOS session with my Assembly code
and go right on working.
Applications are/were a long story on OS/2, that I could write volumes on, but
in short, if you wanted to play games, DOS and later, Windows was the place to
be. Or the more 2000+ updated answer, on a game console.
OTOH, how many word processors/spreadsheets/presentation programs does one need
per OS?
From a technical perspective, the only big problem I had with OS/2, back in the
1990's, was the single thread input queue on the new OOUI, WPS (Work Place Shell).
OS/2 is now sold under the name "eComStation" and boots from JFS2 volumes.
In summary, back in the early 1990's, I moved to OS/2. I didn't do it to get
some application I needed, I moved for stability in the Wintel world. And for
me, it did a great job.
Jerry
