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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Zebediah:
I actually saw a working installation of Windows 2.10 once, long ago, back when it was still state-of-the-art. I wasn't impressed.

Storel:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 21 Apr 2013, 07:11 ---Meanwhile, I miss Mac OS 6.0.8.

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The last Mac I used regularly ran the highest version of System 7 -- 7.5, or something like that? -- and I miss it a lot. I loved how friendly, elegant, and easily customizable it was. Basing the Mac OS on Unix just seems... klugey to me. I used Unix extensively in college (it was my first real OS, actually) and it has an elegance of its own, but it was never designed as a GUI OS, and I just can't see how putting a GUI layer on top of it could ever be as clean as having an OS that was designed for GUI from the ground up. It seems to be doing well, though, so I guess it works.

bhtooefr:
Honestly, OS X is my favorite *nix as a user, although the key is partially that most of what you see as a user isn't the traditional *nix world - it's EXTREMELY different (which is what NeXT was going for back in the 1980s, I know). Yes, you can fire up Terminal.app, and get a somewhat BSD-like userland, but even then, a lot of what you work with is still NeXT/Apple, not BSD.

I find most *nixes to actually be fairly ugly and hackish, but they are damn effective, I will say.

(Then again, one of my favorite OSes to play with is RISC OS, which is an AMAZINGLY hackish OS, that as soon as you go under the hood, sane developers start projectile vomiting at how ugly things are. My ideal OS would probably incorporate elements of RISC OS, BeOS, and have central package management that works seamlessly with multiple repositories. Request a package from the attached repos, get a package. Grab something from somewhere else and put it on the system, and it automatically registers itself with the package manager for updates and dependencies to be fulfilled from either the system repos or a repo referred to in the package.)

westrim:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 20 Apr 2013, 19:02 ---I'm not so much waiting for the next OS as I am just keeping 7 because I have no reason not to.

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No argument there. I've never seen the point in buying a new OS if it's not coming with a new computer. If in some alternate universe I had the money for a desktop and a laptop so I could focus the desktop on performance and the laptop on weight, the desktop would probably still be running Windows XP with new parts. But I don't, so laptops only for me.

The only Mac I used was in elementary school, so I couldn't tell you the OS version. I played the heck out of SimCity 2000 on it, though.

jwhouk:
Oh yeah, SimCity on my Mac LC was fantastic.

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