Re: OS For IIGS

[!smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve Mentzer)]

Try deperately, but ultimately failing to sound intelligent, Rick Hatton 
said...
>
>KCUF airmaster <airmaster@KCUF.org> wrote:
>
>> You're a fucking idiot - take Mac OS over Windows 95?  Only in the same 
sense
>> that I'd rather shred my flesh with a blender than enjoy a good meal.
>> 
>> Linux is a reasonable option: it can actually multitask, behaves like a real
>> operating system, etc.  Mac OS is a joke; it can't multi-thread, it crashes
>> every five minutes, and everything you need to manipulate is hidden behind
>> layers of useless interface.  What kind of shitty advice is telling someone 
to
>> use _that_?
>
>MY Mac doesnt crash every 5 minutes, or 5 days for that matter. My Mac
>at home is much easier to use that the W95 machine at work. The MacOS
>finder is now multi threaded mand there has been an application thread
>manager for some time now. You really should keep up with the
>advancements.


My Pentium-200MMX Windows NT PC w/96MB has been running for 3 months now 
without a reboot. And I regularly play games, develop code and maintain my 
network at work. I have a dual pentium 166 Windows NT server at home w/128MB 
that has been running ~6 months without a reboot. And that machine runs SQL6.5, 
MTS, IIS3 w/proxy, and an in-development object oriented kernel that I am 
developing for use in real-time online MUD-style games who's working memory 
footprint is ~64MB.

The beautiful thing is that a Windows NT machine takes me about 25 keystrokes 
and 1/2 an hour to set up. And the thing is rock solid, as long as you don't 
try to do anything hokey (like put cheesy hardware in the box).

**that** is stability in a mainstream OS.

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