Windows XP and its predecessors have the full power of the GUI. They let you
drill
all the way down to the motherboard level even the BIOS level to let you see
what's going on under the hood by using Device manager to see all the PCI
channels, IRQs, USB hubs and controllers, PCI bridges ect. AMD and Intel have
special utilities for Windows which let you peek inside the CPU to see the
revision, step and registers
inside the cpu.
I can't speak for the Mac becuase I have no experince with a Mac but may one
day
explore but IMHO Windows can let you see almost everything that's there under
the hood.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/06 11:04 AM >>>
I don't know of any OS that reveals its full power through a GUI. The
GUI dumbs down the OS and makes it appear to be accessible to all
users. There are may things one cant's do in Windows through the GUI,
and the Mac OS is no different in this sense. There are many GUI
based tools that reveal much of the under the surface goings on in
the Mac OS, but it still is weak compared to the command line.
Steve
On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> At 09:40 AM 6/10/2006, Steve Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>> Wayne to say that one does not see what is happening under the
>> surface with OS X belies a lack of knowledge of OS X and UNIX.
>
> My early computing & CADD years was on AT&T UNIX therefore I don't
> believe a lack of knowledge is the problem.
>
>> Actually that surprises me coming from you and it is just untrue. In
>> OS X just open terminal and you can do and see whatever you want.
>
> I was speaking from the GUI since we're talking about a new GUI. I
> don't know of any OS that one can't get to a Command Prompt & find
> out all they want but that sort of beats the purpose of having a
> GUI in the 1st place doesn't it?
>
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