Also, whilst we can discuss the potential for OS differences, I don't see such differences in my personal experience - certainly not as much as what these guys are reporting. I have this much gear at home: http://www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg and I think that's a reasonably representative sample of various machines.
Cheers Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 4:48 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? > > Whilst the OS is different, there isn't that much difference in memory > management algorithms and CPU schedulers. It's the same basic research and > theory that goes into that fundamental level stuff. > > On top of that there are bigger differences - approaches to building OS > functionality. But that /shouldn't/ affect how quickly Photoshop applies a > filter. The filter code is from Adobe in both cases, and the actual work is > done by the CPU, with stuff stored in RAM, and rendered by a GPU. > > Cheers > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 3:46 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? > > > > 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
