Re: [NTLK] OSX - OT

From: Donald J. Ryan (DJRyan_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 20:57:37 EST


Well said, Jim !!!

>=20
> Once upon a time, Michael J. Hu=DFmann dressed so fine,
> Threw the bums a dime, admired my ripped-off rhyme, and sent email:
>>=20
>> The classic Mac OS had its issues, but Mac OS X fails
>> to address those, except that it offers preemptive multitasking and
>> memory protection, like any modern OS does. And it does this by adopting
>> the legacies of another, even older OS.
>=20
> I grow weary of disparaging references to the age of UNIX. The
> operating system which began in 1970 is not the same operating system
> today. With time comes advancement and improvement and refinement and
> yes, the odd step "backwards". The philosophy of the "UNIX way" may not
> have changed but interfaces and algorithms and the like have changed
> with the flow of time just as hardware has. If you (the generic
> 3rd-party "you") wish to take UNIX to task, do so for technical reasons.
> We still use UNIX today because it is a well-designed operating system
> philosophy which has stood the test of more than one so-called "modern"
> operating system billing itself as "the UNIX-killer". To wave a
> dismissive hand and sneer "thirty years" so undercuts the rest of your
> argument that you might as well not even make it.
>=20
> I'm pretty sure that I wasted my time typing this; I'm getting the
> feeling that most of those to whom I would address the message are of
> the opinion that everything sucks except some nebulous Other that will
> come like the Messiah to free us of things that suck. They don't know
> what that is, really, but they'll know it when they see it. Fine, but
> while you wait for your promised OS the rest of us have work to do and
> we want to work with the best tools available today, not sit on our
> keisters and speculate while the in-box collapses under its own weight.
>=20
>=20
> Jim
> --=20
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>=20
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