Re: Wiseman and McGhie are Ranting Again

Elliott Roper wrote:

In article <BF535780.1F8E8%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>, John McGhie [MVP - Word
and Word Macintosh] <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi Jeff:

Is it Sunday already?  Must be time to lose the rest of the weekend in a
discussion with Jeff :-)


..and a fine discussion it is too. May I join in? 


You're not allowed to trash his Monday though...


On 16/9/05 12:15 AM, in article #vrzl$fuFHA.904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jeff
Wiseman" <throwawayacct223@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.


You had a better experience of that than I remember. I hated it.


Actually, come to think of it, I never liked running more than one task at a time (i.e., I didn't even have the multifinder installed for the longest time). I would simply kill one task and start another. It was really fast so I guess I liked the simplicity and the absence of out-of-memory errors. I guess that my multitasking usage was so limited on the original mac OS that I really shouldn't be making comments on it :-)

Ahhh, the simple life...


This is not something software vendors are actually "enthusiastic" about.
The move to MacIntel may assist them to learn to love it :-)  Not that
anyone in the computer industry has EVER run out of excuses or the ability
to point the finger somewhere else to blame someone else.

But they will need to be a little more inventive to come up with a
convincing excuse when we point out that "your application runs ten times
faster on Mac OS than it does on Windows OS using the same computer to
process the same file."  Might have to fix it then...



That is one competition I'm watching with interest. Much as I like OS
X, I think the NT kernel's scheduler will be hard to beat. I will be
very surprised if OS X is faster on identical machines in that
department.


I too suspect that you are right. However, I would rather have a system with a good orthogonal security system with a stable and generic type infrastructure. As long as my speeds are "reasonable" I will give up a lot of zip anyday for an OS that doesn't have to have infrastructure changes and fixes everytime someone writes a new application for it revealing some yet unseen loophole in the OS.


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