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jlp@cheeta.inesc.pt (Jaime Lares Rebelo Pinto) wrote:
>Chad Irby (cirby@news.gate.net) wrote:

>
>    My brother didn't know a thing about computers, refused to learn DOS,
>but with just a few hours of help, he started using my Mac. I sold it to
>him, and since then he does his works very well on it, alone, for his
>university studies (not related with computation). Does his brilliant works
>matter? No, because he doesn't even know what sendmail is, and his Mac
>doesn't have a PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING OS yet.

Okay.  Fine.  Why doesn't your brother buy a Typerwriter?  (What?  You say a 
typewriter is not as flexible???  Yeah.  Thats my point.)

>
>    My Mac only crashed about 4 or 5 times during the last year, all of
>them because of badly designed freeware/shareware/demos I was testing.
>I didn't lose a single document because of it, not even a bit of a
>document did I lose. And I use it almost every day. Does this matter?
>No, because it doesn't have PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING yet.

My Linux box has _NEVER_ crashed due to misbehaving software.  Yes, I've had 
poorly written programs crash, but _NEVER_ has it taken down the system with it.  
The Mac IIsi at work, on the other hand, crashes under MacTCP at least once 
every day.

>
>    Is it all clear now? You were having problems understanding their point
>of view, because you were thinking about the end user, instead of thinking
>about the programmer, the system administrator, and, most important of all,
>PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING.

I don't care for any of these marketing words (Preemtive Multitasking) created 
only to PROVE one system is better than the other (ie.  Preemtive Multitasking, 
RISC, etc.)  You can toy with syntax all you want.  When I concider my 
experience with MacOS, Linux, Windows, etc, I _know_ what does what I want it to 
do w/ the least pain.  I also know what system has the most potential to support 
future developments!  (Open systems and community built/designed freeware is a 
much faster development model!)   


>
>: If there's nobody using the machine, you should turn it off and save some 
>: energy...
>: -- 
>
>    Heresy! Heresy! Whatever you do, you must NOT turn it of! Even a unix
>machine, when turned off, delivers no PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING! Ah!
>
>: Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
>: cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
>
>
>:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
>
>
>    Well, while I like unix very much, and learned it before I ever
>touched a Mac, and I think that it makes sense to use it at work,
>what I want to have at home is a Mac with MacOS. Like you, I'm not
>ready to start PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING worship!
>
>
>    Cheers,
>    Jaime.

This I can agree with.

Jeff Halverson