On Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 04:05 PM, Gordon Hawley wrote:
> Yep, it makes me laugh when I hear people shout about some of the
> advantages of X
hello guys.
I agree with 98.5 % of your posts.
But the main , and ONLY, reason I am working in OSX over OS9.1, is
that unlike OS9 the need to reboot when a screen freezes is eliminated
in OSX.
OSX has a built-in Force Quit escape mechanism. If a freeze occurs,
you : hit opt-cmd-esc, up pops a graphic listing all open
applications, select the dirty dog appl , hit Force Quit and all
returns to normal operation. No need to reboot. Have used it "many
times" so far, me being a hacker and experimenter of the first magnitude
.
As I understand it ,UNIX based stuff (actually apple OSX is bastardized
BSD & tcsh (?)) gives you this. Simply put, OSX applications/their
working files are stored on the hard drive in their own little
"sub-partitions", isolated from the next application in its own
sub-partition.. Not so in OS9. Corrupt one application/file and it
spills over,corrupting the next application, etc, like dominoes, and
hence screen lockup ; and with OS9 the only escape mechanism is
switching power OFF and rebooting.
Other than this, OSX is SLOW; like an emulator, and it will be at
least three years before all third party OS9 applications are on board ,
like all model CD RW, printers , scanners etc.But hey, there is always
Classic or booting back into good old OS9.1 to operate all those good
old, high priced external SCSI devices.
But then again who said life was fair , and remember , there is no free
lunch in the Stevie J. -buy-a -G4-mac -world.
Enough said. I now plan to return to the "real" screen and check how
Tiger Woods is doing at the NEC , pickup the Yankee-Oakland game-and
then prepare for the Giants-Jet game.
My wife swears that she intends to put only following epitaph line on
my tombstone:
" He watched sports and played with his computer "
pax vobiscum to all.
Have good weekend
albert
unsupported mac user until the end of time or the big bang, whichever
comes first.
and a pox to all PC users
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