Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've used Unix machines, Macs and Windows machines for the better part of the last 20 years. I've done extensive development (programming) work on the original MacOS, Unix, and now the new Mac OS X. What you learn when you use computers too much is 1. There is a correct tool for every job, and no single platform is the right tool for every job. 2. Users don't like change. Hence all the Mac OS X angst. OS X fixes huge deficiencies in the OS 9 platform, esp. with regard to the performance of the machine when performing multiple tasks at the same time. But, to get there, the interface changed to be a hybrid of the traditional Mac UI and pieces of NeXTstep (NeXT is where Jobs went in 1985 when Apple chucked him). Maybe things could have turned out differently, but they didn't. So this is what we have. It's probably the case that we'd either have this or Apple would currently be gone or part of some other company. 3. Computer people tend to be zealots, but this does you no good. 4. SA == system administrator. I'm back using and programming Macintoshes now, after a long haitus. I have to say that from a developer's point of view, Mac OS X is miles ahead of what we used to suffer with on earlier versions of the MacOS. Lots of things are better than in Windows too, but Windows still probably has a wider and deeper base of tools for developing various kinds of applications, esp. database related apps. For what I do, I like Macs more. They are familiar in two ways: in the macish way, and in the Unix way, and that makes me happy. But, I'm just one user/programmer. All the other uses have to choose for themselves. Calling the platform and its users stupid is just childish and arrogant. Pete - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html