Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 2443
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:29:23 +0200, Hadron Quark
I was using Torvalds' code immediately after he posted it. But with ATT UNIX at home, and I had to go out an purchase a 486 PC to run...
Err, yes. What would you call it? Maybe you're like Jim : totally unable to configure your system. Did you buy cheap HW? His aim was to...
Not really.
Actually, back then, yes, we did. Most arrived non-formatted, and there wasn't much else to use for backups back then, unless you had tape.
TeX was my main thing, since IÊneed mathematical typesetting. It ran much better on linux, even in the early days, than on Windows. There was a spreadsheet (at first, just sc, but later Wingz came around), a lot of database choices. CAM programs (maple-Mathematica-axiom-maxima) were a little slow getting to linux, but maxima actually was available around that time. Aside from that, I had a good calendar-scheduler-phonebook, e-mail, Web access when it became available.
Multi-user was not a big deal to me then (it is now), but mulbreastasking was.
Huh? Why then has Windows done all those silly kludges to get something like that capability? I still remotely display programs from one machine on another, so I can run intensive computations on a faster machine.
Oh, well. So, you used Windows not because it was better, but because it had the largest market share. Supporting a monopolist perpetuates the monopoly. Not having to worry about that, I went with what worked better for me.
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Stable? Worked? And you call that mulbreastasking? Look, lets be honest, not whimsical. :-) Something that crashed...
David L. Johnson
o Deserves rest! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve `-(, rest. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to ()() them? Then do not be too eager to deal out rest in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein
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