On 1/29/10 8:57 AM, "Brad Lindsay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The analogue of PC vs Mac is absolutely nothing like this. A closer analogy >> would be sticking with non-GUI OSes because UNIX is more powerful than OS9. >> Pesky mouse! > > Which explains why Apple's upgrade from the GUI-only OS 9 was to a > UNIX OS? Sorry, I just found this analogy too ironic to be better > then the original one. Maybe a better analogy can be found in how the > HTML Standard is usually a description of what browser venders have > already started doing? And yet they didn't throw away the GUI. Funny that. They made "Pretty" the default, and make you work to find the terminal and live in that. Huh..I guess it's a pretty damned good analogy after all. -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
