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Is OSX better than XP?
NJDevils:
As a computer architect, I am absolutely APPALLED, that anyone would claim that PC hardware is better than RISC hardware. I am sorry, but that isnt so.
Put two and two together, the x86 instruction has been around since 1979, when CPUs were primarily stack and accumulator designs (holy fuck!)! Youd have to be insane to think that the x86 is superior. Why the hell isnt a 2Ghz P4 blowing the doors off a 1 Ghz G4 even with a superior memory subsystem (gotta hand it to the x86 camp there)? Simple, because the x86 architecture requires more instructions, more cycles per instruction, and more memory space to do the same thing. This is why the Mac can get away with 133Mhz SDRAM and still make the PC look bad.
Its utter bullshit that people claim Windows boxes as high flyers. AMD has kept the x86 camp sane, otherwise we could kiss the x86 architecture away (they have empty cycles in the P4 pipeline, simply so that certain parts of the chip can catch up, really). This kind of mass markety buzzword architecting is what killed that Alpha, which in its current iteration at 833Mhz/66Mhz ECCSDRAM still shells everything except a Power4 out there.
Let me get this straight, someone is claiming that Windows heavy applications and better at multitasking that much lighterweight POSIX threads? Get your head examined.
Interfaces may be duplicated, blatantly copied etc, but it still doesnt cover up an OS that has remained distinct simply to claim money off ridiculous patents. If M$ made a POSIX system, it might have been decent, but this "New Technology" crap is too much. Go away M$, please, you degrade our progress (and take intel with you).
psyjax:
I like you so Much right now NJDevils :D
YOUR MY HERO!!!
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by psyjax:
I like you so Much right now NJDevils :D
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Uh-oh. This is getting weird... (:
The Czar:
Does anyone know where I can get these skins for XP? Unfortunately, I have to use XP daily, and this would make it a little easier to handle.
Thanks
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