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Is OSX better than XP?
Kintaro:
Im just reading that article, on the table it has webserver.
Why does a webserver need a GUI?
It says XP supports Dos....
Barely.. its emulated and slower then an 286
with a core voltage leek
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by X11:
Zombie, i seemingly are mistifyed by you...
Why do you like Microsoft
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I don't like Microsoft the company, but I do like thier products. DOS emulation in XP isn't so slow if you disable "Fast ROM Emulation" and "Dynamic memory allocation". Also, for most DOS programs you need to go to the memory settings and set the maximum memory values for XMS, EMS, DPMI and conventional memory. IF you know how to configure stuff in XP stuff don't run all that bad.
Kintaro:
quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
I don't like Microsoft the company, but I do like thier products. DOS emulation in XP isn't so slow if you disable "Fast ROM Emulation" and "Dynamic memory allocation". Also, for most DOS programs you need to go to the memory settings and set the maximum memory values for XMS, EMS, DPMI and conventional memory. IF you know how to configure stuff in XP stuff don't run all that bad.
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Well its good you dont like "The company" i do SEMILIKE one of there products and thats NT 3.5, its the last good thing they made
psyjax:
Huh? Who cares about alot of this crap:
Support for built in floppy drives - I havent used a floppy disk in years... plus, I know for a fact, that attaching any of the USB external floppy drives and load it on to the computer, I have seen it done.
SCSI device support - Again, Apple is pushing this stuff in to outdated technology, Firewire is faster and dosn't run in to SCSI conflicts.
Support for tape drives - huh? Does anyone use a tape drive for home computer use?!
Play DVDs - This article's info on DVDs is outdated considering that the latest version of OS X fixed most bugs with DVD's.
Uninstallation service for installed programs - this is hoot! They give this a negative as if it were actually a problem like in windoze where a billion files are tossed about willy nilli thrugh the system. Many installers on OSX have an uninstall feture, but most programs are gone when you dump their folder, so who cares?
Automatic cleanup/removal of temp files - OS X uses a swap partition like most *NIX variant's. This should have recived an n/a.
Web server - can't beat apache, sorry IIS :D .
Whatever, I personaly don't find OS X to be that slugish. If you do, there are tons of 3rd party stuff to speed it up unlike the article would have you belive. Shadow remover is one that comes quickly to mind.
None the less, unlike windoze XP OS X is going in a totaly new direction. You know, that word "inovation" that M$ likes to toss about, it's quirks are fine with me cuz I know that 10.2 is gonna be a total freakin trip when it comes out. LoEndMac made a good comparison, right now were we are with OSX is where Mac was in MacOS 3.
In the end I think it's still more user friendly and stable than any windoze box.
[ April 20, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
billy_gates:
brag about multiprocessing,
Remember OSX has symmetric multiprocessing (both CPU's shared)
Windows XP Pro has parallel Multiprocessing, (uses one CPU for Windows and the other for Apps)
Then brag how you can run something that takes up 100% of the CPU and still use the system like that 100% CPU process is not hapening
Hell burning 16x on my Windows Machine slowed it to a crawl because it took most of my CPU
Another tip, shove a bunch of techy terms in his face like BSD Unix, SMB/CIFS, SMP, TCP/IP, WedDAV, etc.
Good Luck
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