I agree- even those who dislike Aqua, or who wish that more hardware was
supported at better speed, have to admit that protected memory and
preemptive multitasking are huge steps forward. Furthermore, OS X's Unix
foundation and Open Source involvement. Check out the Feb. episode at
www.appleturns.com for more info on that.
sj
On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 09:06 AM, Donald J. Ryan wrote:
> Are you kidding? I think OS X is fantastic! Blows away Windows XP / NT.
> Just
> as an example of the power and flexibility, Lucent decided not to
> support
> their WaveLAN cards under OS X because Apple was pushing their propriety
> Airport cards. Well the open source community jumped in and created a
> set of
> OS X drivers. It uses the OS X installer and adds a new control to the
> preference pane...installed and worked just like any other 3rd party
> software and works well.
>
> The other day I was burning a CD while downloading a 15M file and
> updating
> my Newton via Classic with 6 other apps running in the background. I
> didn't
> realize it until I sat back and looked and was amazed....try doing that
> with
> OS 9...try doing it with Windows...OS X rocks!
>
> Donald Ryan
http://homepage.mac.com/stevehj
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