Re: gcc vs anything else - correction (fwd)

[Tom Zerucha]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Aaron Ardiri wrote:

>   i admire Mac for being well ahead of its time. geeze.. Mr.
>   Gates thought it was worth while to copy the interface.
> 
>   but personally, i never feel it was a real programmers
>   environment. click, click, click.. jobs done.. unix on the
>   otherhand - the real hackers environment.. you dont understand,
>   your harddrive dies..

UNIX was a protected environment - crashing it unintentionally (if you
weren't root and didn't hit /dev/mem) was actually difficult.  The (early)
Macs would give sad macs and bombs and other things.

Both UNIX and Mac are consistent within their paradigms, Windows isn't.