Loren,
> Extremely more stable. As a heavy Mac user, running a lot of different apps
> (some beta) in a variety of different environments, I was used to crashing,
> or at least having to reboot daily, or even several times a day.
Well, I'm running 8.6 on my PowerBook with 15-20 applications running for
weeks without a restart - except when I need to use a SCSI peripheral
instead of FireWire. That's not bad.
And when your front-most X application, probably the one you are working in,
goes belly up, your data is history - just like it was before. OK, so it
didn't take the system with it - that's nice.
But this is absolutely not an argument about if X is better than 9 - they
are both decrepit and past it. It's sad that Apple, for probably expedient
reasons, have failed to make any progress. They just ran out of time and
ideas.
In the seven years I have been using my Newts I have never lost anything due
to a error in SW or HW - now that's clever. And the real beauty of it is
that I didn't have do anything to make that happen.
The only option one has with all the desktop systems now available is to
defend yourself against them. The day you don't bother to save will the day
your vital document gets mangled - and so it will continue to be.
This and two dozen other big issues in computing are simply not being dealt
with because everyone seems to have accepted that it's normal.
It's not normal, it's bad engineering.
We have to lift our eyes up beyond the immediate and see a bigger panorama
or we'll be stuck with these obtuse things on our desks for ever.
Mac OS X is not the future, it's the past, day after day...
Joel.
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