Well, just a tidbit of info I learned on TV. Bill Gates bought the DOS
operating system from some poor sucker for a few thousand and joined with IBM
and made a fortune. Apple got the all know user interface from Xerox because
they didn't want it (bet there kicking themselves now). And Windows was a
copy of the first Mac OS because long ago Steve and Bill joined up and Bill
raped apple of there OS and made a poor (and I mean poor) copy of it. Just
thought id throw that in. Sorry to bore anyone.
Jake
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I'm not really sure where that ever started but the strength of the
Mac is not necessarily in it's stability, as computers are still in
their infancy and things do go wrong; the strength of the Mac is also
it's weakness; that is, it is easy to add functionality to it. Of
course with so many tinkering with the OS, it does have conflicts. I
just hope Mac fanatics will be happy with OS X as it will not be what
the Mac OS was. But that may be the price of stability.
To be philosophical Mac and Windows are diametrical to each other
in their approach. Mac fanatics just cannot help loving their
computers because the Mac is truly a work of art in and of itself.
Sometimes we are just in awe of the sheer beauty of the interface
that we don't want to hear of it's flaws. The Mac OS had a financial
time table. From what I have read, memory protection and pre-emptive
multitasking was thought of it but it just had to go out.
It's a right and left brain thing. Windows is purely logical but not
in an intuitive sense. It's approach is very mechanical since it's
beginning. The Mac is also logical but in an intuitive sense. You
just start to understand it and you can usually figure out what is
wrong because it has a sense to it. The Mac OS was built from the
ground up to be for people. Windows was more of a mix-match of ideas
that really didn't have a central foundation like the Mac did. So
much care, love and attention was given to the Mac that it just
shines through. And yes, sometimes we are blinded by it but that's
OK. We can't help ourselves.
I too have had to force myself to work with Windows, as the
unavailability of software for the Mac is painfully evident. It was
mainly my kid's that forced me to get a PC (who were brought up on a
Mac since the age of 5 an are now 15 and 16). I generally can get by
on the Mac software that is out there for my purposes. But I have
basically given into Windows as it is functional and it does work;
it's just not as fun as being on Mac.
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