(October 3, 2011 at 3:38 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009. That is approaching ~2 years ago. For someone who is in technology, were you marooned on a South Pacific Island with a volleyball for a while or something?
As I stated,I am a MAC guy (for now), I only use windows in my work environment. The communications systems programs I use are not yet compatible with Vista or 7. My toughbook has three partitions, MSDOS, Win98 and XP. Yes, some software in my field still only runs in DOS and most of those cannot run in a DOS shell. So this even limits the machines I can use. No USB-serial, hard port only.
(October 3, 2011 at 3:38 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Ok, now I'm starting to question your credibility, as you've asked if Microsoft has abandoned NT for a Unix kernel while bitching the OSX (which runs on Mach/FreeBSD (a unix kernel)) is becoming more like Windows.
I was speaking of the user interface. If you had ever played with MAC OS9, you will remember that something as simple as opening a folder was 'right now' when the desktop displays after a startup or reboot.. The computers are getting faster but the overhead in the GUIs are outpacing them.
In the early days of computing, there were some really sharp programmers. Memory was small (my first computer had 4K of memory) and there were contests, one of which was writing any program, but "one line of basic". Some guy wrote a "Centipede" game and another "Pac Man". Albeit crude, they played impressively well.
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