Re: Serious Word Document Problems - Please, PLEASE Help! :(

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote: 
I haven't tried Tiger:  Paul tells me I am not only a luddite but doing
myself a disservice there :-)


I'm not sure I agree. I track a lot of the Mac system forums and newsgroups and Tiger still has some problems. I'd give 'em a little longer to work out the kinks. That is why I'm still on 10.3.8.


But then, I do like the Windows XP interface (not as "pretty" as OS X, but a
damned sight faster when you're in a hurry...) so I guess there's no hope
for me :-)


Actually, I don't think it is so much the Mac OS X GUI as it is the true multiuser, multitasking, full virtual memory unix like underpinnings of OS X that give it that sluggishness. I've used X windows, Solaris, and Openwindows on sun workstations and they all seem to have that same type of sluggishness. In fact OS X seems to have the edge in terms of "feel" but that may simply be because I've only used it on workstations that are faster than the ones using the other interfaces. A simple process such as loading an application to run involves a lot of stuff on a virtual memory system. That's why folks find it is much faster to just leave all of there important applications running all the time--then you get (almost) instant gratification when you want it :-)

For that reason, I suspect that it's going to be hard to again match the great responsiveness and feel of a single user pseudo multitasking OS such as the original Mac where you could sizzle through operation after operation and the computer could actually keep up with you.


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