peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/01/90)
In article <3262@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes: > The biggest thing that Apple did to make the Mac marketable was to get rid of > the multi-tasking operating system. That had nothing to do with it, dude. It was cramming it into such a cheap box. Now that involved subsuming *everything* to the window system, but there's nothing inherent in multitasking operating systems that would have cost more than a couple of K to keep such a thing in. Penny wise and pound foolish... And a little less than two years later a machine not a hell of a lot more powerful than the Mac Plus came out with one built in. And back to someone else's comment, this has nothing to do with comp.object. Let me redirect it to, oh, comp.sys.misc? > If only IBM had come out with the new RT sooner ... perhaps they would have > had a chance ... Or if they'd used C++ and NeWS instead of O-C and Display Postscript. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>. 'U` Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>. "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/01/90)
In article <1989Dec22.015032.5863@world.std.com> madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes: > My point isn't to buy a NeXT box, but to compare comparable systems. > The 386 machines do better than a comparably equipped Mac, but > they aren't cheaper than NeXT. Yeh, but you don't have to buy it all at once. You can get on board for 3 grand for a usably fast system, instead of 10 grand. And System V might not have all the bells and whistles, but apart from the abhorrent IPC (which isn't that much worse than BSDs) it's a hell of a lot cleaner. V.4 should satisfy even the most whacked out Berkeleyoid (like I used to be before I discovered what System V.3.2 has in /etc/conf). Maybe A System V.4/Mach port will let us dump the crap (shmget, ipc.h, select) simply by not loading their respective daemons from /etc/rc2.d. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>. 'U` Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>. "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com