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Jack
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Jack Gallemore wrote:
I haven't found a single instance where any Microsoft OS outshone a
Mac OS during the aforementioned time period.
I'm not talking about apps, I'm talking about the user interface,
PARTICULARLY under Windows 3.x. Microsoft provided an extremely
consistent and complete user interface that worked well from either
the mouse or the keyboard. The OS under the hood was crap, and a lot
of individual applications were incompatible, and Windows 9x kicked
the legs out from under, but I really found Windows 3.x and NT 3.51 to
have a really nice integration between the user interface, the mouse,
and the keyboard.
I was talking about the OS as well. Frankly, I've never enjoyed any
version of Windows. I cut my teeth on a Sperry 1100 and my first LAN
job was on a Banyan VINES server so I'm much more comfortable with a
command-line interface. I agree that Windows 3.x and NT 3.51 were good
interfaces, but I didn't see the consistency you experienced. I also
never really liked the color schemes that were available, nor did I
care for the design of the windows and icons that much. With all that
ugly design, the OS was plopped down on a butt-ugly desktop which made
for a barely palatable user experience. I was always dumping into a
command prompt to get my work done, since I could do it much quicker.
Even today, I still find myself using some PERL script with it's
command line interface to do a lot of my admin work on an Active
Directory enterprise network.
Not to belabor a point, but since many flavors of *nix is freely
available, why not use something cheaper?
I did, up to 2003. I was one of the first developers for what turned
into FreeBSD (without which Darwin would have had a lot harder time
coming to be): I was the first person able to type "make world" on
386BSD and have it compile the whole OS and applications from start to
finish without erroring out once (and the result became patch kit 24,
right before the shift from the name 386BSD to FreeBSD). I don't think
anyone managed a complete Linux build in one pass until years later.
So, not to belabor the point, I think I'm on top of that stuff. :)
Jaguar and a good deal on a Powermac 7500 and a Sonnet G3/400 card got
me onto OS X... and it's the best desktop OS bar none. There is no
mere "second best".
Yeah, I'd say your on top of it as well. I guess my point was that if
there is little difference between OS X and other flavors of *nix, the
choice would be (IMHO) based mostly, if not entirely, on aesthetics.
Jack
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