Software interoperability

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Klaus]

The core of Windows is rotten.

OS X has a lot of crap on the surface, but the core is somewhat sound.

[George K]

@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?

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Software interoperability:

Care to explain, in terms that even I could understand?

You are asking for the impossible.

[George K]

@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.

[Klaus]

@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.

[George K]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

So you're saying that Windows is POS compliant?

[jon-nyc]

@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

[Copper]

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.