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Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited
allgood2 writes "John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a great article exploring the myth that Apple could/would be Microsoft if only they had licensed their operating system. This myth has oft been purported in technology and business media."
It's generally agreed that the first version of Windows that didn't suck shipped in 1995, a decade after the arrival of the Mac.
Such a version of Windows was never released.
they could never compete with MS because they bother with all that quality controll non-sense
Yes, you are dictating to HIM that HIS own personal reasons are wrong. Keep up the good work.
So it'll be a while.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
As a proud owner of a G5 I have to say there is nothing more fun than a ten-player game of Photoshop Deathmatch.
(But seriously, I do own a G5 and I do not regret it one bit.)
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
..why isn't Atari with their ST the Microsoft of today? :-)
Doom 3 soon is one of my favorite games. Indeed, it ranks only slightly under Doom 3 Now. That and the $125 patches... Forget it, why am I posting here when I can be playing Doom 3 Now. Have fun.
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IIRC, Hercules was something like 720x348. And I remember it being a little bit of a pain to program. If you wrote the wrong value to a register when setting the graphics mode, your monitor would start making a loud high-pitched squealing sound (and probably bathed you in X-Rays). Ah, the joys of running fractint on a 4.77MHz XT.
I have this really sweet gaussian blur death ray.
Fscking openoffice screwed up the spell check again.
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
Quothe the article:Was you PC going "Blee-ble-ble-ble-ble-bleeee" so long that you missed the Switch commercials? That's kind of..........a bummer.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
You just paraphrased the sentence you quoted. Congratulations, you live up to your name.
- Okay first the claim that Apple's "OS" and hardware was light years ahead of the PC is nonsense...sure all the pretty-clicky stuff was 10 years ahead, but the design (no multitasking/interrupts, user/system memory segmentation, etc...) was 10 years BEHIND!
- The first version of windows that didn't suck was not shipped in 1995, rather the first "pretty" version of windows was shipped that year. A version of windows that doesn't suck has never been shipped.
- Even if Apple had licensed their "technology" they would have been pounded into the dust because try as they might - nobody can play as dirty as Microsoft.
I agree, even asinine. But you evidently did the usual Apple slam of only comparing against their top end desktop. OK, let's go to the Apple store and see what I can get. The cheapest desktop is $1049 CAD ($799 in America, btw). That is a lot less asinine, or even assinine.
What's that? You only count the high-end stuff worthy of your attention? OK, fine, but then do the same when comparing a Dell. If you compare low-end PC to high-end Apple, you'll end up looking assinine and asinine.
Huh? How does that business plan make any sense? "Hmm, I'm losing money on selling this meal... I know! I'll just sell even MORE of them! Let's see now, what's -$0.75 per meal multiplied by a few hundred?"
There must have been some profit on something somewhere!
Why must the US stick to imperial units? The proper terminology is a metric fuckton. Standards, people, standards.
harmonious design
Because we all know that tires are both a significant fraction of the price of a new car, and frequently outlive the usefulness of the car....
Hey, did you have to go to bad analogy camp, or is it just raw talent?
Step one: remove guts
Step two: built a plexiglas window where the monitor screen was
Step three: seal plexi
Step four: add gravel and a colorful sunken treasure toy box
Step five: add water and fish
There, a good use for an old Mac and much more useful than a vt100.
its easier to find pirated software for PC.
Because I shouldn't have had to.
This is the exact reason why I refuse to travel outside the U.S.
Those damn foreigners expect me to use a power adapter if I want to plug in any of my American electrical appliances. I've written the WTO several times about this issue, but so far have received no reply.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
If you thought you were running them in 1984, then yes.
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.