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> Mac OS doesn't prevent it, it just makes it more difficult, and, if you > aren't really sure what you were doing (and sometimes even if you did), > more dangerous. But what if I don't *want* fire that can be fitted nasally? > If you want a machine to do multitasking with lots of little process doing > lots of little things and servers doing this and that while you play Super > 3D Solitaire, listening to 320 kbps MP3s in the background, then Mac OS is > not for you. Back when Mac OS was designed, no one wanted to do that. I did. That's why I got an Amiga that let me chat on Freelancin' Roundtable while I compiled the latest version of my videogame and let "Neko" chase my mouse and ran the last-but-one version of my game in a background screen because I liked the music Karl wrote for it. In 1986. I'd wanted to do that ever since I saw Smalltalk and Lisa and the Xerox Star Office system. In 1982. Then the Mac came out, and I was pissed that the Lisa never went full multitasking even if I couldn't afford one. In 1984. Which turned out to be 1984 anyway. And 2001 turned out to be 1941 lite. > Now everyone does. Sure. We just had to wait for Bill Gates to invent multitasking. I wish I was joking. > Now there's Mac OS X. Which also sucks. And the really shitty thing is, everything else sucks even more. > Now now, we don't hate each other. We are capable of only appearing as > though we do. It's an upgrade. It's a theme. We're a skinnable application.There's stuff above here
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