Re: OS For IIGS

[cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu (Charles A. Plater)]

KCUF airmaster (airmaster@KCUF.org) wrote:
: On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:30:07 -0800, Lim Thye Chean <limtc@iname.com> wrote:

: >I think by that point, you should be using Windows NT instead of 95/98.
: >Or better, get Linux (if you are a power user) or Mac OS (if you 
: >prefer simplicity). :)

: 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_?

Probably the same kind of logic that told Bill Gates to take the idea of a
GUI he saw implemented on the Mac (remember Bill Gates saying the mac was
the only truely original machine?  if not I'll put the QT vid of him saing
it on a web page) for the x86 line of computers?

Win 95 is still nothing more than a "graphical shell" over dos.
config.sys, and autoexec.bat are still there.  I have used Win 95, and in
fact I have to support it at work.  And looking at our queue Win 95 give
people more trouble than MacOS.  In the last 6 cases that I've dealt with
only 1 has been MacOS, and even then it was a problem with > 20 third
party extensions, not the OS itself.

As far as Linux goes, it rocks the pants off of MS Windows.  I've had a
p90 running Linux on my desk for the past two years.  In fact the first
thing I did with my x86 machine when I moved into my office was install
Linux to replace Win95 that was on my machine.

: >Matt Portune wrote:
: >
: >> Well, when you have 10 gigs of drive space split over multiple partitions,
: >> it gets annoying.  :)

: It's an overdue update.  Windows NT is the problem with 95; if 95 gets too
: powerful, NT becomes irrelevant.

Well, it seems that Win 95 may not be going anywhere if the DOJ get's
their say.  And if that's the case, MS has nothing to offer us until 2000,
what are we supposed to do, shell out $100s for NT ? Which by the way will
cause  all of the people with < Pentiums to go out and shell out money for
that upgrade, and the 32 Mb of RAM their going to need.

I'll stick with MacOS, thank you very much (and GS/OS on my Woz ROM 01)
and move up to rhapsody when it's released.  If that's not your OS choice,
fine, you live with the consequenses.

--
Charles A. Plater, Systems Analyst I, Wayne State University