That's not such a bad epitaph! My better half has the working title "He
watched the Yankees and played with computers." But she's torn between that
and the "original" from many years ago..."often in error but never in
doubt."
Actually I prefer the original, but TIME will tell...8^0
Mike Wafkowski
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert D'Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: OS 9.2
>
> 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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