On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:58 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Knowing what has had to be done to get Mac OS X running, I am simply in > awe. Okay, not like what I feel towards God or the Grand Canyon, but as > much awe as I can feel towards any of the work of humans. In my POV, > 10.2 confirms that Apple recognizes that the corners they cut to get > Mac > OS X out the door (just barely) in the market window have to be filled > in.
This makes an important point... To those of us who have been on the "net" since ARPA days, the simple fact that any of this stuff works is truly mind boggling. And it doesn't matter if you are talking about IP networking or OS operation. Everything we do IS rocket science. I've been a Unix person since there was ONLY System 3 and a Mac user since 1984. And I can't begin to tell you how much I am overjoyed that OS X is a reality. It may have blemishes, but it is head and shoulders over any other operating system on the market today from ANY vendor, and I've spent far too much time on all of them. 17 years ago desktop computing meant a KSR33 or maybe a VT100. I spent many hours on a 300 baud thermal printer based terminal in the name of "home computing." "We've come a long way baby!" Even with the Darwin base, the vast bulk of the work creating OS X has been paid for by Apple dollars -- which means that they have to have income; they don't have the government grants which financed the creation of the Internet. (Sorry, Mr. Gore, but you had nothing to do with the creation of the Internet.) Yes, we all want perfection, and we all want it now, but the simple fact that any of this stuff works IS amazing. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
