RE: Operating systems Wars!
March 12, 2017 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2017 at 1:05 am by Fireball.)
Ahem. When I started programming, it was a monochrome monitor, once we got past the PUNCH CARDS. 
I've used IBM360s, PDP11/XX, VAX750/780/XXXX, CRAY Y/MPs, etc., and some other systems that I can't think of right off the top of my head for number crunching. Then there were weird data-acquisition forays into FORTH. I just rolled with whatever the operating system demanded in the way of maneuvering through it. My one experience with a MAC was a TEMPESTED unit that I was doing some programing in FORTRAN on. That thing came up with the little cry face so many times a day that I got to the point of saving after entering every line of code. Once I got that program entered, it crashed with astonishing regularity, with a different error message for what turned out to be the same problem, and it wasn't my code. 
I wouldn't have another Apple product unless I could give it back to Steve Jobs without lube, at re-entry speeds.
If I wasn't so old now, I'd go with LINUX. But Windows is my interface now, and I guess I'll just keep it that way.
I've used IBM360s, PDP11/XX, VAX750/780/XXXX, CRAY Y/MPs, etc., and some other systems that I can't think of right off the top of my head for number crunching. Then there were weird data-acquisition forays into FORTH. I just rolled with whatever the operating system demanded in the way of maneuvering through it. My one experience with a MAC was a TEMPESTED unit that I was doing some programing in FORTRAN on. That thing came up with the little cry face so many times a day that I got to the point of saving after entering every line of code. Once I got that program entered, it crashed with astonishing regularity, with a different error message for what turned out to be the same problem, and it wasn't my code. I wouldn't have another Apple product unless I could give it back to Steve Jobs without lube, at re-entry speeds.If I wasn't so old now, I'd go with LINUX. But Windows is my interface now, and I guess I'll just keep it that way.
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