🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <415olt$d6@jobes.sierra.net>, rayvd@sierra.net (Ray Van Dolson) writes:
:daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) wrote:
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:>docjoe@interramp.com (Joe Ragosta) wrote:
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:>>> >Mac OS has been 32 bit clean since 5 years ago...
:>>> 
:>>> How long has the Mac been multitasking?
:
:>>Oh, about 5 or 6 years. How about Windows?
:
:>Since 3.0.  And unlike the Mac, most Windows applications were
:>co-operative aware 4-5 years ago.
:
:An OS doing something first doesn't necessarily mean it does it better now.
:Win95/NT and even OS/2 are far superior operating systems to the MacOS System
:7.5 even if Mac pioneered many of the technologies..  PC OS vendors simply
:took some of the Mac's best points and improved upon them!  Now we'll see if
:the Mac can keep up (quality wise if not quantiy-wise) with Copland.

What counts is present features and adaptibility for future changes in
requirements. If both these factors are excellent are chances good that the
product will remain powerful now and in future.
As far windows and MacOS, which both have/do lack proper preemptive multitasking
and requires HUGE efforts to get them to adapt to the "new" required preemptive
multitasking. All those efforts do cost lots of money and research, with HUGE
problems with backward compability to earlier poorly designed operating systems.
Therefor do they slowly "fool" their users to use the new system with "almost"
full backward compability. In the long run are the users supposed to have less
need of the older program and the backward compability requirement can be slowly
pushed forward against modern systems, and at the same time earn some money on
programs which need to be updated.
Otherwise, why would Microsoft introduce 32-bit windows applications and Apple
talk about a slow preemptive approach with a far away Gerschwin? Face it, you
are supposed to get rid of all your old and present programs and buy new versions
and their new OS as well. Ofcourse they don't tell us about it, but it is all there.
Why accept complex attempts to make old crippled systems meet modern needs when there
are modern systems available today which had a lot more in the luggage right from
the start? OS/2 and Unix have got all this right fromthe start and can concentrate
on userinterfaces and high performance parallel computing while M$ and Apple work
on with PMT/MP.

/Henrik