The Register - There are still crypto reg's...

petro petro at bounty.org
Sat Feb 10 22:02:52 PST 2001



>In fact even Windows 95 had preemptive multitasking

	No, it didn't.

>which is absent in
>MacOS 7 and wasn't added until MacOS 8.6.

	No, it wasn't.

>From an operating system angle MacOS has been traditionally poor with
>no real process control or no real memory management (any Mac user
>will tell you the "virtual memory" system is shit) being a hacked up
>mess dating from 1984 with kludges stuck on the side.  It's
>superficially pretty but ugly under the hood.

	Which is also true of Windows.

>
>But MacOS X is based on BSD UNIX/Mach with a radical new userinterface
>and I, for one, would rather use it than NT.

	It is not a "radical" new user interface. It is the same WIMP 
interface with a lot of expensive (in terms of CPU) chrome grafted 
on.:
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