Sam Burrish skrev: >The Darwin core in OS X is not UNIX or LINUX. Darwin is part of the BSD >family, which is categorized as a "UNIX-like" OS, but there are huge >differences between BSD, Sun, HP, or ATT UNIX. LINUX is also a "UNIX-like" >OS, but it is watered down compared to the superior BSD breeds.
The only thing which would disqualify BSD as a UNIX is the fact that it doesn't contain any AT&T code. BSD began as a set of code patches to the very original UNIX at a US university. BSD is much, much more UNIX than Linux is, in that regard, Linux being written from scratch. And Linux is UNIX enough that no- one would ever mind. >I don't see how using a BSD core makes it any more compatible with NT or DOS >(the two main M$ core OSes). Sure, OS X can speak the most popular windows >networking languages, but so could ASIP running on OS 9. The core OS doesn't >determine what all it can speak. Nope. The only thing it really does aid is porting UNIX applications. >> You may be a bit behind however, on upgrades...before >> windoz had some real difficulty in upgrading, but I had >> no, none, problems going from 95 to 98 and to ME (Now >> that is on a relatively new machine but not brand new >> either,--Maybe in the past but not now are there those >> problems.) I don't know about XP, I have not purchased >> it yet but am planning too. >You must not work with PCs much. Last week, I was working on a win 95 box, >and needed to reinstall the OS. The drivers for all the major components >were made by random 3rd parties, most of which had gone out of business. It >took me all day to track down the drivers. I see people having conflicts >with their wireless NICs and the core OS, or one driver is conflicting and >corrupting another, etc. You mean you don't have to have drivers for your third-party cards in Macs? >Also, Win XP sucks. Four of my clients had to reinstall it a week after they >got it. And most of the people I talked to tried it out for a few days, then >went back to windows 2000 Pro. XP is a cheap imitation of OS X, M$ modified >some GUI elements, but there is basically no new technology to make it >better than its ME predecessor. That's odd, I thought XP had a lot more in common with NT/2000 than with 9x/ME. The main point of XP is that there now is unified Windows architecture, the DOS/9x/ME branch being buried at last. >AppleTalk support in OS X is even better than in OS 9, also, TCP/IP support >is outstanding in OS X. After all, the BSD APIs Apple has written are out of >this world. I thought the BSD APIs were written at Berkeley, ten or twenty years ago. >Ok, lets start out... The journalism and newspaper industries all use Macs. I think he meant industries of the "industrial" kind. Most probably, the newspaper printer isn't controlled by a Mac, for example. -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
