Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:07:43 GMT From: Bob <uctraingnopsamanet.com> Subject: Re: Saabs and Homosexuality
On 12 Feb 2001 03:47:53 GMT, Jack B <jacknopsamhe.net> wrote: >-"PCs run the Internet." Go to Netcraft and see who serves most of the >pages on the Web. Take a look at what most nameservers use. What does >Microsoft's own 'Hotmail' service use? You misread my post. I agree that Unix machines do most all of the mail and DNS work on the 'net. Unix is also more popular as a web serving platform, although the numbers are closer nowadays. Unix/Linux doesn't cut it on the desktop. >Oh, yeah, take a look sometime >at the guts of NT... that's right, it's a dumbed-down *NIX. I gotta disagree with that one. NT is much similar to VMS than it is to Unix - mostly because Dave Cutler, a VMS engineer, did much of the systems design. >I despise Windows because it is neither truly useful like MacOS nor >truly powerful like a true multiuser environment (UNIX, VMS, others) Like they say, IYHO. Me, I like a more non-propritary approach to hardware. Linux isn't there for corporate software yet. VMS is better than all the other OS's - but other issues cloud it and their desktop version crashed more than MAC's or Windows. >By attempting to criticize Apple, you are like the Honda Accord driver >who doesn't understand why someone would pay $10,000 more than his >EX-V6 cost for a machine with less horsepower and a small back seat... Say what ? First, I am not attempting to criticize Apple, I'm doing it. MAC's could have been big but an unrelenting and non-sensical proprietary approach dragged them into the overpriced and undernourished gutter. Second, people buy Saabs because they get some additional value (comfort, performance, luxury) from it. I don't argue the HP issue with Honda owners - I point to performance. Same with computers. It's performance in the office that counts for end users - and Windows wins with hardware costs and software diversity compared to Apple, and ease of use compared to Unix/Linux. Bob
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