Re: mac schmack

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 17:38 on 08 Sep 2003
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:22:42AM -0500, Peter da Silva said:
> Under what, Linux? Some multifinder-style hack?

MiNT (MiNT is Not TOS) which was bought by Atair and turned into 
MultiTOS (and MiNT became MiNT is Now TOS) and also using Magix (later 
renamed MaG!X)

 
> My fucking ST didn't have preemptive multitasking, that's why I dumped it
> and got my fucking Amiga, which had preemptive multitasking in 1986. Real
> native supported preemptive multitasking. Not a hack.

And you got a free footwarmer :)

But my point still stands. It took Apple 16 odd fricking years to get 
preemptive multitasking.

I'll say that again.

16. Years. 

In sixteen years I had time to :

1) be born
2) develop motor control
3) learn to read
4) learn to write
5) learn assembler
6) write my own OS
7) give up on computers to concentrate on beers and girls


> 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. See below.

 
> You can probably install BeOS and run OS 8.1 under Sheepshaver. I did
> that on my 604e/180.

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


> Or run Mac OS X under Linux on your Lombard using XPostFacto.

See my big problem is that I hate Max OS X too. 

But then I also think that Steve Jobs is eveil incarnate and that not 
only do the iMac (original and current) look damn ugly but also the Ti 
Powerbook and the iPod.

In fact I hate the look of the iPod so much that I won't buy one despite 
the fact that it's clearly the best portable MP3 player available (FCVO 
clearly). 

In fact it enrages me that nobody else has managed to do a clone. I 
mean, FFS, it's not like Apple did anything revolutionary. I had high 
hopes for the Toshiba clone because

a) Toshiba make the fricking iPod and the drives inside
b) it didn't look like the hardware equivalent of white stilletoes
c) you could pop it open and remove the drive and then pop that in your 
   PCMCIA slot or, indeed, upgrade

but no. They snatch fricking defeat from the jaws of fucking victory by 
crippling it with DRM and then not having drives as big as the iPod. The 
fuck? YOU MAKE THE DRIVES YOU MORONS. YOU MUST HAVE THEM LYING AROUND.

*sigh*

Simon

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