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Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3281
Actually Apple's OSes over the years haven't been all crappy. If you ask me most of the stuff was crappy...
Why has Microsoft sold a crappy OS for over twenty years &A#JD1Tg!d8
And those viruses amounted to 50 total. *** Meanwhile Windows counted up TENS of THOUSANDS. has to say about ANYTHING. Obviously this creature is a person troll, absolutely DESPERATE for ATTENTION, with no goal...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3283
at $25,000+ a pop, Sun actually sold very few systems compared to Apple and A-UX. Sun wasn't a volume seller, they just sold a few during those first years, Apple dwarfed them...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3284
Oxford There was no A-UX between 1982 and 1988. It didn't sprout an instant user base when it did come...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3285
That's only 48 hours worth of sales of Macs... not terribly impressive. Just the facts. And all earlier versions of the MacOS are still support by Apple, so...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3286
Sandman machines with built-in TCP-IP start their gain in popularity." Under $20,000 for the Sun 1, not $35,000. As usual, you have to chop a lot out of...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3287
which now is the Mac Pro, if you want the absolute most performance for your money. or form Paul Thurrott's mouth: Apple's price advantage One of the things that really interested me...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3288
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edwin wrote on 17 Aug 2006 10:59:32 -0700 And a counterexample is ... ? Not that I believe the Mac Pro is or is not the best, cheapest, or most cost effective out there...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3289
Sandman You remain unable to answer without chopping out the facts. No it wasn't, otherwise you wouldn't have chopped...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3290
You were wrong. You read something that was wrong and repeated it. I read the same information, did a little thinking and realized that 50,000 Macs sold in the first year made...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3291
You read *errors* posted in one *article* at a Mac site. I never as much as...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3292
Alan Baker As if I was supposed to know that at the time. One can not help but notice how your earlier phrasing avoided acknowledging this was information...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3293
What difference does that make. It was *wrong*. Explain how that implies it was tagged... They couldn't determine it precisely, but they could tell if...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3294
Well? As usual, you and the world disagree: "The success of the Apple II in business spurred IBM to create...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3295
Alan Baker Your nit-pick over the use of one word does not show the lack of understanding about the basics of networking. And nothing you've shown doesn't...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3296
No you're showing that you don't understand it. There is no "it" in as much as there is no single overall thing that Ethernet and TCP...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3297
Alan Baker No I'm not. This thread did you good, as it got you to read about the things you summarized above. I'm happy to have contributed to your education, but alas, you still haven't...
The Apple II and its effect on IBM was Why did Apple sell a crappy
Riiiight. "Apple's IPO scared the heck out of IBM, which wanted to flood the new "Personal Computer" market niche with a product of its own...
The Apple II and its effect on IBM was Why did Apple sell a crappy
Alan Baker Those remarks cut to the very core of the discussion, yet you feel no need to respond to them? The...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3300
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sandman wrote on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:56:52 +0200 Not sure about that, though...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3301
If "worked for" means "founded and ran"...you're still more than a little ambitious, since NeXT was founded by Jobs in 1985, and sold to Apple in 1997. Your statement...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3302
Oh come ooooon. It doesn't take a Wall Street analyst to see the big picture...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3303
Solaris is still THE commercial Unix for shops that need that level of robustness (or better) and aren't yet ready to migrate to...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3304
Since gtgt doesn't seem too clear on the concept of context... Where in the world have you been for the last few years? XP and Solaris run just fine on...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3305
Steve asks: Here is the context you need. Solaris does not provide users the ability to run Solaris and XP at the same time like you can...
Why did Apple sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3306
Because I had enough money to buy a mac for my own use, and the sort of job that necessitated a SunOS machine in my home (obvious reasons-- if I had constant access...
Cost of viruses etc., on PC's 3307
What insecure OS? OS X? In fact in recent months, there have been more security holes that would allow viruses run on Macs than PCs. Now you have...
Cost of viruses etc., on PC's 3308
Hi John, Your certainly overstating the case of recent security holes and OS X. I can think of two recent holes: 1. Where certain cooked-up gifs can cause Safari...
Cost of viruses etc., on PC's 3309
You mean two times the computer was exploited. I'm talking exploitable holes. If you go by that, there are...
Cost of viruses etc., on PC's 3310
Hi John, Found your post! John Slade Agreed. But I'm able to keep my OS X box on the internet without having...
WinBat Cheap Skate Syndrome
Wall all agree that most Windows users are pretty cool. But everyone knows at least one sufferer of WBCSS ( WinBat Cheap Skate Syndrome) Here are the symptoms: 1. Reuses his friends Windows CD to install...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3312
Yes, of course DW is not a design tool. Photoshop rules in that domain. The way it works at my company...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3313
Why not? I can think of partial subsets that certainly are "synonymous with the whole", but of course that ability relies on understanding what synonymous means...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3314
Depends on what the quotes say, who wrote them (the words of sock puppets don't bother me much) and how many...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3315
Gee, when someone writes: "DW is not a design tool" ... it seems to me, for accuracy's sake, the answered would be: Sure it is... just not for "image design". But from you we get...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3316
Of course, it's THE reason everyone calls you a liar, troll or worse. Your actions have 'spoken' to all the many people that have given you your well earned labels. Never saw anyone claim...
Any reasoned disagreement with any of these ideas 3317
Your actions are what prompted people to say about you what they have. Feel free to support any accusation you'd care to make that shows this isn't the case. (snip bullcrap...
Apple trounces Dell...again 3318
Steve, Did you read a thread I started within the past year about my Uncle's Dell computer? He paid for the At-Home Service, had all...
Apple trounces Dell...again 3319
My Uncle must have fit the 'Other Conditions Apply' option. IIRC, I spent three days one week and a couple the next (2 plus hours each day) reinstalling windows following Dell's telephone...
Apple trounces Dell...again 3320
That was how a Dell representative defined the service to me when I was helping my Uncle. As I stated...
Windows Vista: Doomed In The Corporate World 3321
Mojo The fact is, there is no great demand for a Windows update because the current Windows work just fine, contrary to its detractors (of which you are one). That...
Windows Vista: Doomed In The Corporate World 3322
You're good for a laugh Mojo. But first of all, even if it is true...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3324
i think thomas has it a bit wrong again, the whole goal was $500, but at that point in technology, apple...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3325
of course that info is correct, i looked it up on actual price lists. it's never been a secret that steve has always pushed for low prices, his...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3326
Alan Baker Yes you did. You presented the ARS Technia site. Your "buttumption" was that because...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3327
To refute the idea that only 50,000 128k Macs were sold in the first year, not to present what the actual figure was. What you presented was wrong, wasn't...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3328
Alan Baker You attempted to refute "the idea" of how many Macs were sold by presenting a figure that was not the actual...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact... 3329
I refuted it by showing multiple sources that all agreed that the 50,000 unit sales were achieved in 74 days. No, it wasn't. I was off by...
AnandTech likes the Mac Pro 3330
Michelle Ronn Then explain why they've been gaining new desktop partners? Their offerings are *very* attractive...
AnandTech likes the Mac Pro 3331
When the Opteron and Athlon 64 came out. AMD had two distinct advantages over Intel. The first one was power, and the second was memory performance. Intel has...
AnandTech likes the Mac Pro 3332
Michelle Ronn AMD has also held a significant price advantage over Intel, and still offers better price-performance than Intel does. This...
AnandTech likes the Mac Pro 3333
Dan Johnson The Windows API was a stinking pile of poo until very late in the game; I'd say the introduction .net really. Get this HDC, lock this object, spend half a...
AnandTech likes the Mac Pro 3334
You are mistaken. One of its advantages over the Mac is that it does not combine HWND and HDC, the way the Mac toolbox comined windows and grafports; this makes...
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