16 Nov
2000
16 Nov
'00
1:34 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Engineers I know are not very happy with the OS X
though. They tell me
it doesn't do a very good job of being either Unix or a Mac. When the
edict comes down from the top that everyone *must* use OS X, there are
going to be many unhappy engineers.
I haven't tried it myself so I can't comment.
I think it has two main problems, the biggest being it is to flashy, but
also the problem that it's got UNIX underneath, but doesn't included
X-Windows. Something along the lines of the old A/UX would have been nice.
My first exposure to Mac's was a Mac IIfx that Honeywell morphed into a
workstation running A/UX 2.0.
The flashy problem has partially been addressed by allowing you to change
the button colours from 'aqua' to 'charcoal'. What ticks me off is that
the
classic Mac and the NeXT interfaces were very sleek. The new interface is
far from what I'd consider sleek!
As for having tried it, I have, but not extensively. If I could find time
to do more than just play with it, it might grow on me. As it stands, it's
made a bad initial impression on me to the extent that Motif and CDE seem
preferable!
Zane