Alok, Charles - thank you for the answers. Very much appreciated, because there is no way I could run "MacOS experiment" on a spare *puter - no time, no money.
Well, so it looks like even though Emacs works without problem, there would have been some limitations if I moved to MacOS and I would have to redesign good part of my dataflow, and not quite for the better. I have kind of suspected that, but it is good to have some info on the subject. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:38:23AM +0000, Alok Singh wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 02:22 Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: > > > would that be under MacOS - I mean, virtual desktops, ram disk, > > lots of windows? > > > > Haha. [...] Haha? Oh my. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:42:23AM +0000, Charles Haynes wrote: > > You didn't include virtual machines. [...] Yeah. VMs were very cool and sexy (technologically), but after hearing of escaping code, rowhammer, ime and who knows what will future bring, they have lost almost all of their technological charm. Certainly, a rational actor will not waste time to have my archive of emails (and most of it is on gog already), but irrational actor will be happy as hell when destroying a decade or few of somebody's life. And I can easily envision a future where rational actors will be minority. Thus carelessly running alien code in VM, even one as well written as Windows [0], is gradually becoming a non-option. Just MHO and I am not sure yet how to react to this. [0] ... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
