28 Jul
2001
28 Jul
'01
2:38 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser skrev:
> UNIX is for masochists. I'll never get along
with that system, it's so
> unfriendly, it was perceived as unfriendly even back in the seventies. And
> it will never conquer the desktop.
MacOS X. I'm a believer. First Unix that manages to
avoid looking like Unix
(except if you want it to). I've never seen an X windows manager that did
any good other than making the Unix metaphor just pretty, not less
complicated. OS X, on the other hand, does an excellent job at hiding it away
from the casual user, but not making it ridiculously difficult for people to
get their hands dirty if they want.
Personally, I think there's too much UNIX in OSX. They not only took the
kernel, but the entire environment as well.
Otherwise, (this wioll keep us within the ten-year rule), it reminds me of
MiNT/MultiTOS. Incompetent OS programmers who can't make a functioning, full-
featured system of their own just take a kernel off the rack and add some
glue. Granted, OSX is an entirely new system of its own whereas MiNT retained
TOS capability. But it's a tried and old concept.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
We have support for the PMAGC-B's on pmax right? That is a PixelVision based
card right? I see Bt 463, that chip looks bigger than the 21164! Just looking
at it makes me want to write an Xserver!
Chris Tribo, NetBSD/pmax