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| Time: 09:23 EST/14:23 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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bought my first computer in 1988. It was an Amstrad PC2286. It came equipped with a 12.5 MHz '286-DX (no slouch by any measure of the day), an entire megabyte of RAM, an immense 40Mb RLL HDD, MSDOS 4.01, and a most peculiar OS called Windows-286. Ah, the manual. It told you everything you wanted to know. I curled up with it in bed. I learned debug. You could do some stuff with that little progie. I came up with a little fractal-like item I could use, manually of course, as a sort of screensaver. I thought it was pretty damn cool -- and green on black, naturally. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 1/22/2002 11:17:19 AM |
| I was almost forced to the MAC in my Win 3.x days... but I weathered it, and now I'm happy. ;-) |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 1/22/2002 12:03:33 PM |
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I find this article interesting. I was forced to the Amiga in the DOS days and OS/2 and even Linux in the Windows 3.1 days... It wasn't until Win95 that the Microsoft world became interesting, and NT4 that it became really useful.
This post was edited by sodablue on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 12:04. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.157) at 1/22/2002 12:23:33 PM |
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You know, you _could_ have it all. A good interface. Unix. True Desktop Useability. Stability. Good Software selection. And as much of the Unix Command Line you want or desire, and none of it if that's your wish...
It's called MacOS X, and it IS the real thing... TL |
| #4 By 2062 (65.100.101.56) at 1/22/2002 12:39:13 PM |
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I read the first paragraph then gave up, its obvious this is just a rant against microsoft. I dont see why people hate ms so much, if you really dont like ms there's always alternatives...
i also dont see why people hate the register so much. this article is crap, but usually they post some stuff thats of value. There not as bad as cnet or zdnet against ms anyway. -gosh |
| #5 By 116 (66.68.170.138) at 1/22/2002 3:25:18 PM |
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Yeah but if you run OS X that means that you have to have Macintosh hardware which is extremely overpriced and under powered. Look at the new iMac 1800 bucks for a computer? Give me a break.
OS X is slow and kludgy, Apple has done a wonderful job of screwing up what was a good UI. What exactly do you mean by saying Mac OS X is the "real thing" TechLarry? |
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