Re: Differents!?

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Stingray <stingray@webzone.net> wrote:

>But this is supposed to be an Apple ][ discussion group. My Apple ][ are
probably
>the most crash resistant computers in the lot.

Not to mention that GS/OS has the most beautiful architecture of
any operating system I've seen, Mac or PC.  Everything is so
organized and modular.  Each file is a module that goes into a
specific folder that performs a specific function and that module
remains a separate file that the user can manipulate and
remove.  There is no big 'system file' nor do installer programs
throw hundreds of files to the four corners of the hard drive such
as in Windows.  Functions are not patched into the system like
on the Mac either.  Just look at how GS/OS handles file systems.
Each file system is an FST.  You put the FSTs into the FST
folder.  Each FST is a module conferring the awareness of a
file system to the IIGS.  It is absolutely beautiful.  No other OS
is this modular or intuitive.  Not MacOS.  Not Windows 95/98.
Not Linux.  Not OS/2.  In each of the other operating systems,
plugging in a new file system involves much more complicated
and slapped together procedures.  GS/OS is the only one that
sticks to the basic concept of the GUI.  And most of GS/OS is
this way.

GS/OS was a cleanly designed operating system that could
have easily evolved into something much better than anything
else out there.  It didn't because its parent company stifled
the hardware on which it run thus freezing its evolution.