On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Jack Gallemore wrote:
I haven't found a single instance where any Microsoft OS outshone a Mac OS during the aforementioned time period.
I'm not talking about apps, I'm talking about the user interface, PARTICULARLY under Windows 3.x. Microsoft provided an extremely consistent and complete user interface that worked well from either the mouse or the keyboard. The OS under the hood was crap, and a lot of individual applications were incompatible, and Windows 9x kicked the legs out from under, but I really found Windows 3.x and NT 3.51 to have a really nice integration between the user interface, the mouse, and the keyboard.
Not to belabor a point, but since many flavors of *nix is freely available, why not use something cheaper?
I did, up to 2003. I was one of the first developers for what turned into FreeBSD (without which Darwin would have had a lot harder time coming to be): I was the first person able to type "make world" on 386BSD and have it compile the whole OS and applications from start to finish without erroring out once (and the result became patch kit 24, right before the shift from the name 386BSD to FreeBSD). I don't think anyone managed a complete Linux build in one pass until years later. So, not to belabor the point, I think I'm on top of that stuff. :)
Jaguar and a good deal on a Powermac 7500 and a Sonnet G3/400 card got me onto OS X... and it's the best desktop OS bar none. There is no mere "second best".
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