Software interoperability
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I'd say that Windows is way, way better than it used to be. I kind of thought about switching to Apple a few years back, but since Windows 10 came out I haven't had any problems that would make me jump ship.
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The core of Windows is rotten.
OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.
@Klaus said in Software interoperability:
The core of Windows is rotten.
OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Klaus said in Software interoperability:
The core of Windows is rotten.
OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
@George-K said in Software interoperability:
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
You are asking for the impossible.
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@George-K said in Software interoperability:
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
You are asking for the impossible.
@Klaus said in Software interoperability:
@George-K said in Software interoperability:
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
You are asking for the impossible.
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@Klaus said in Software interoperability:
The core of Windows is rotten.
OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
@George-K more seriously, Mac OS has Unix roots (e.g., it is POSIX compliant).
Unix and its philosophy are among the intellectual highlights of the 20th century. It got a lot of things right, and the "Unix philosophy" of decomposing an OS into a modular set of independently useful tools is still sound.
Windows, on the other hand, started as a hack. It was always a hack. Hacking around 640K memory limits. Hacking around DOS compatibility issues. Hacking around driver compatibility issues. Hacking around multitasking and process separation issues. Hacking around a file system that wasn't designed to provide protection. Hacking around a user system that was never designed to support user isolation or concurrent usage by multiple users. There was never a clean design. It's a mess with a nice facade.
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I was aware of the Unix underpinnings of the Mac OS. Jobs touted it for his failed NeXT venture, if you recall.
I wasn't aware of the limitations and the "add on" structure of Windows. Seems like, according to your description, Windows is one patch on top of another.
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So you're saying that Windows is POS compliant?
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@George-K said in Software interoperability:
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
You are asking for the impossible.
@Klaus said in Software interoperability:
@George-K said in Software interoperability:
Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?
You are asking for the impossible.
lol
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