On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > The only difference would be in the OS.
Right, and that's completely, totally different. MacOS is a Mach microkernel supporting a BSD layer supporting tons of Apple custom stuff. NT is pretty much its own beast. They've got nothing in common except the command-line FTP client (Copyright by The Regents of the University of California, doncha know?). Different kernel, different scheduler, different network stack, different graphics subsystem, different video drivers. More than likely, the application -- and the runtime libraries it depends on, and the compiler it was built with -- have some major differences between platforms, too. I'm not disagreeing with your suggested scientific approach to things -- indeed, I think you're right on in questioning whether it's really a platform different, and not just a broken installation -- but dismissing the OS difference so casually is highly bogus. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
