Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!pyrnj!esquire!baumgart From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 18:19:23 GMT References: <91085.161852EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> <1991Mar27.225800.16664@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> Sender: news@DPW.COM Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 24 In-reply-to: minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu's message of 27 Mar 91 22:58:00 GMT In article <1991Mar27.225800.16664@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes: The Mac's system software is still very good. We may complain about cooperative multitasking and unprotected memory, but those are not items that are easily plopped on top of a lot of history [...] Also, they don't always buy you as much as you think. I've crashed my Sun a number of times -- don't know how -- and more often, I've crashed my window system, which is pretty much the same thing, since you have to start everything all over again. My Sun has all sorts of whiz-bang memory protection, but it doesn't always seem to help as much as people think it should. These things are nice frills, but they're hardly necessary for people to get work done. (Unless those people are programmers, in which case the harder it is to crash a machine the better. But most people aren't programmers.) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman