From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 17:14:23 MDT
Mandrake? As in Linux? Apart from the fact that you
are in a small minority, as virtually everyone with
whom I have ever discussed this who worked with both
NT and Linux vastly preferred Linux, including system
administrators for many of the BIG university or
corporate networks, I don't recall that I specifically
mentioned Linux as being what I would compare NT - or
any MicroSloth product to. In fact, I use The GIMP
and am starting to learn Blender <www.blender.org> on
my Win2000 system at work.
To me, it is utterly bizarre to see a reasonably fast
Pentium with almost a Gig of RAM slow to a c r a w l,
just because it's printing to a PostScript printer,
or, worse yet, formatting a floppy. On my Amiga 1000,
running at 7.14Mhz (clock - the processor ran at half
that), with 1 Meg of RAM, in 1986, I ran over 30
programs simultaneously once just as a test... THAT
finally bogged the system down.
But, on the Amiga, I could set the task priorities for
virtually anything on the system. I could format
multiple floppies - or hard drives - while printing,
while downloading, while rendering, and while entering
new data, all at once. And, I could create macro
programs piping and controlling applications thru
interprocess languages like REXX. AND, I could add
new hardware while the system was running. AND, I
could redefine "logical devices" on the fly, which the
system would treat just like partitions on a hard
drive, so that I could add a fonts directory from a
floppy or zip to the fonts directory ten levels deep
on the hard drive and the system would see them as one
device. Thus, saving countless hours of work
relinking files on a "modern" MicroSloth idiot box.
We should have been 15 years beyond that point by now.
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