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In article <root.827273089@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

>In <4imn4l$glo@News.Dal.Ca> hayesk@is.dal.ca (Kevin B. Hayes) writes:
>
>>Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
>>
>>: MacOS 7.x -- Windows 3.x: no memory protection, no PMT
>>: Copland   -- Win95:       limited memory protection and PMT, due to backward
>>:                           compatibility requirements.
>>: Gershwin  -- Win/NT:      full memory protection and PMT, limited backward
>>:                           compatibility.
>>
>>First of all, you are saying OSes are "equivalent" based on memory 
>>management. I'm sorry, but Win95 was matched in 1991 with 7.0 - if you count
>>other features.
>
>I've got it.  7.0 has been having PMT since 1991.  Glad to know it :-)
>

Dan, can you read at all????? I said "if you count other features". These
other features are more important to most people, including me.

>>That's your problem. If the memory model was the pinnacle of the 
>>usefulness of an OS we'd all be using Unix. I wonder why we're not?
>
>Mostly because you don't have the necessary skills :-)  And because
>Microsoft Office doesn't run (natively) under Unix :-)

Wrong - I use Unix, I have been for about 5 years - at school only. It
serves no purpose for me at home. And, no, I don't run MSOffice at home
either.

>
>>: It's clearly not my fault that the Mac equivalents of Win95 and Win/NT
>>: are not here and nobody knows when they'll be.  This doesn't mean that
>>: MacOS 7.x apps can be meaningfully compared to Win95 or Win/NT apps.
>>: Power or 68k, MacOS 7.x apps can be compared only to Win 3.x apps.
>>
>>They're not here because we upgraded our macs' OSes long ago. Get a clue,
>>there's more to an OS than memory management.
>
>Yes, but it's memory protection and multitasking which are currently the
>limiting factors in MacOS and Windows.  This is why it makes a lot of
>sense to talk about how they're handled by various versions of these 
>popular OS's.

It doesn't make sense at all. People don't choose an OS based on it's
memory model - they choose it because it, combined with the apps that run
on it, let them get the most work done. That's why I use MacOS - Unix
and/or Windows doesn't let me get work done any quicker.

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