From kragen@dnaco.net Fri Sep 4 08:33:22 1998 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:33:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: Christopher Palmer cc: rebecalist Subject: Re: How Stella Got Her i mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 1656 Status: O X-Status: On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Christopher Palmer wrote: > Rarely crashes, humm. My Mac zealot friends (right...as if I myself > weren't a zealot) always claim they never have crashes. What are you > people doing differently from me? I often wondered the same thing. (I wouldn't be surprised if Macs were better than Win95 anyway, but "never crashes"? "rarely crashes"?) > I torture Linux and I still get > uptimes on the order of months. What's up? Linux uses the MMU to protect itself from buggy applications, and the kernel itself is fairly non-buggy, so it's pretty stable. > Another good indicator is PPCLinux vs. MkLinux (Linux running atop the Mac > microkernel) benchmarks: PPCLinux outperforms MkLinux by a factor of four > or five, on the same hardware. Microkernels don't have to be slower than monolithic kernels. Mach is, though, and Mach is what all three of NeXTStep, MkLinux, and MacOS X are built on. (I always thought NeXTs were incredibly fast visually, myself, because of that DPS hardware.) > > There are only three types of computer users: Those that use Macs. Those > > that wished they used Macs. Those that don't know any better. > > Type no. four: People who migrated away from proprietary software and now > use Linux or one of the free BSDs. ;) Yeah, those are pretty nice. But you know what? Lack of ease of use keeps people from getting as much out of those as they could. I discussed DOSEMU at the most recent Cincinnati Linux Users' Group meeting, just offhand, and several other people asked me what it was like. Kragen (who BELIEVES in our SAVIOR Donald A. Norman and his SON Jakob Nielsen) -- Kragen Sitaker I don't do .INI, .BAT, .DLL or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. -- Fritz Anderson