Hear! Hear! I like the points made by William, a man after my own heart.
I often tell my wife when she complains^H^H^H^H^H^Hments on some behaviour of her PowerMac running MacOS X 10.2.1 that if she knew what was going on inside, she would be amazed that it BOOTED!!! I too have been in and around UNIX since the Version 5 & 6 days when I worked at the Navy Electronic Labs in San Diego in the 1970's. I am a huge Linux fan and have used it for several years. But when Apple made MacOS X available, I jumped in with both feet and love every second of it, even on my old trusty 450 B&W G3. Having both the beautiful Aqua GUI AND a nice flavor of UNIX underneath is just so nice, I can put up with a lot of "blemishes". Having worked in software development for over 25 years, I know there are always bugs and I can't ever see complex software and hardware systems being perfect. But MacOS X comes close enough for me to have a LOT of fun!!! I bought the MacOS X public beta and never opened it, knowing that it was not going to be ready for "prime time" but I just wanted it as a souvenir. I bought the 10.0 release, and tucked that away as well. I bought 10.1, loaded it on my B&W G3 and my Pismo and was thrilled! 10.1.0 to 10.1.5, better and better with each download... Lots of fun! Now, I bought the 5-user license of "Jagwire" to put on both my Macs and both my wifes Macs and have no regrests for spending any of it. I just bought a 512 MB SDRAM module for my wife's PMG4 for $75 and put 10.2.1 on it - WOW! When I think back to the day that I paid $300 for 32 KB of RAM for my North Star Horizon (an S100 bus computer from the 1970's), I can only be amazed every day at how cheap and how powerful these home computers of today are. And how blessed I am to see and use computers of today, well, I'm just very grateful... William H. Magill wrote: > 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] -- George B. Smith "Amateurs built the Ark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professionals built the Titanic."
