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Re: Comments on the Macintosh
Vinnie Moscaritolo <[email protected]> writes:
> Tim May <[email protected]> writes:
> >.the Mac OS is of course still missing basic OS features such as... memory
> >>protection.)
>
> Tim,.I am suprised to hear you whining with such a liberals voice.. I
> always thought that demanding memory protection in an OS is a lot like
> demanding that the government is responsible for protecting you from
> anything that might go bad.. If applications are well written, then you
> really dont need the memory partitions in a personal computer.
Are you serious? Or are you pulling our leg?
> That is if application writers would take responsibility for thier own
> apps...
People write crap software. Microsoft writes crap software. If the
OS reboots or freezes every time a microsoft app dumps core on you, it
gets tedious. If you are developing software you don't want a reboot
just 'cause you got a stray pointer.
Real multi-tasking is kind of nice too, like when the mouse cursor
still functions, and your system still runs while copying a file to a
floppy disk. (The entire system freezes for the duration of the
operation with win3.1, and I think it is still noticeable in win95.
Linux where as you wouldn't know there was a floppy being copied if
you didn't glance down at the drive light.)
Adam
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