Software interoperability
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wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:28 last edited by
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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wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:45 last edited by
The core of Windows is rotten.
OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.
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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.
wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:48 last edited by@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?
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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?
wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:50 last edited by@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.
wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:55 last edited by@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?
wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 14:56 last edited by Klaus 10 Sept 2020, 14:57@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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wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 15:03 last edited by George K 10 Sept 2020, 15:04
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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wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 15:24 last edited by
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.
wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 15:41 last edited by@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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wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 16:30 last edited by
Windows has to support everything in the world.
Apple doesn't have to support anything, including their own stuff. And if you don't like it - too bad.