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In article <417pv7$qp7@steel.interlog.com> Dave Glue,
daveacg@interlog.com writes:
>
>From "long" experience?  Amazing, considering the things not even out
>yet.  95's weakness is not complete memory protection, and yet you
>advocate the Mac, which is far worse in that area?
>
>And that "simple" HAL is the main reason Copland will be out in a
>year, not in a month.  Hardly an easy task at all.

I've been working with Win95 for a long time in beta, and Windows since
the 1.x versions. Sad too, because I am so used to Win95 that the
roll-out hype is a decided anti-climax<g>.

Odd, for all of the MacOS's weaknesses, I've always found it more stable
than Windows on my systems. It is probably because I had to make my PC's
memory architecture jump through so many hoops on the PC. Other than
floppy accesses and compiling, the MacOS has been a pretty steady little
cooperative multitasking box. Obviously, this is not everyone's
experience. Compared to other Mac users I know, I use fewer extensions
and control panels. Most of mine ship with the OS, or come with hardware.

Apple is writing a whole micro-kernel OS to go along with that HAL, and
that is what is taking them so long.

FWIW, I don't advocate the Mac for everyone. It is just my favorite
machine to use. I always recommend using the best tool for the task at
hand, but some Windows/PC advocates seem to take the tack that the PC is
the ONLY platform worth using, for any task.

All the best,

WT