Re: mac schmack

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 19:46 on 08 Sep 2003
> But my point still stands. It took Apple 16 odd fricking years to get 
> preemptive multitasking.

No fucking kidding.

That's 15 years behind a company that made most of its money selling
videogame consoles with keyboards. They considered having the Amiga
keyboard optional, and actually fought putting ANY expansion port in
the Amiga until Miner came up with a hack that cost less than the magic
50c per unit.

Commodore and Atari, neither company was a shining star in the computer
firmament. And they ended up suing each other to death, or at least
mortally wounding each other in the process. Bastards.

I really feel sorry for the people who worked there who couldn't be
all they could be because of their management. I feel sorry for some
of the people at Microsoft, too, but not too sorry 'cos they still
do OK lifestyle-wise. And I'm always amazed when they manage to sneak
clue past the sales line.

Apple, geeze, their problem is that they manage to do so much right and
then snatch suck from the jaws of victory anyway.

> > I'm sure you can install Linux on your Lombard.

> But I don't want Linux. Linux also sucks donkey wang. In fact all OSes 
> suck donkey wang.

Well, yes, that's why we're here isn't it?

> BeOS might be a possibility. Although that get a special free 'suck' 
> for, well, not being around anymore in a commerical way.

You wouldn't believe it but a company in Germany is STILL trying to
ressurect it.

Alas, as has been noted, that's a no go.

Plus, I've used BeOS. It's got its own fair share of suck. Oh, indeed it does.

There's stuff above here

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