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  • K Kevin McFarlane

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    Clickok
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    I would like vote on "Other". This OS is awesome :cool:


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    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:

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    • K Kevin McFarlane

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      The question should've been "What is the single most bloated OS of all time?" 1st = Vista 2nd runner up = XP right behind it = Mac OS X the last one being other Roswell

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        I would like vote on "Other". This OS is awesome :cool:


        Engaged in learning of English grammar ;)
        For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:

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        Clickok wrote:

        I would like vote on "Other". This OS is awesome :cool:

        As in anything but what's listed...heh heh, you're the ultimate rebel:laugh: Roswell P.S. I'm surprised they didn't include VAX/VMS...

        "Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
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          The question should've been "What is the single most bloated OS of all time?" 1st = Vista 2nd runner up = XP right behind it = Mac OS X the last one being other Roswell

          "Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
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          Well, every new OS in a family is going to be more bloated than the last, almost inevitably.

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          • S stephen hazel

            Well =i= thought that VM/CMS was wayyy better than MVS.

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            Yes, fer sure. /ravi

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            • R RoswellNX

              The question should've been "What is the single most bloated OS of all time?" 1st = Vista 2nd runner up = XP right behind it = Mac OS X the last one being other Roswell

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              Chris Austin
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              I'm not really a mac guy, but what do you find bloated about OS X?

              My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

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              • K Kevin McFarlane

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                Dave Kreskowiak
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                BS! It's CPM and we all know it!! :->

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                • C Christian Graus

                  I'd say this was quite predictable.

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                  So predictabel that I predicted that shall a poll would be somewhere on the web, and funny enough I predicted the answer too. Move over Nostradamus I'm coming through.

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                  • R RoswellNX

                    Clickok wrote:

                    I would like vote on "Other". This OS is awesome :cool:

                    As in anything but what's listed...heh heh, you're the ultimate rebel:laugh: Roswell P.S. I'm surprised they didn't include VAX/VMS...

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                    :-D:laugh:;)


                    Engaged in learning of English grammar ;)
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                    • C Chris Austin

                      I'm not really a mac guy, but what do you find bloated about OS X?

                      My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

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                      Chris Austin wrote:

                      I'm not really a mac guy, but what do you find bloated about OS X?

                      Well, it's not all that bloated when you strip it down to the bare minimum, but it does feel a bit heavy loaded on pre-'99 macs if installed as is. Most people used to XP won't even notice, given the amount of spyware and the overwrought GUI, but those who prefer faster minimalistic o/s's will see the difference. Though it is nice to be able to bring up the unix shell and do some things using scripts. I can't say much good about the Aqua interface. It may be pretty, but why do i need extra garbage when i'm already doing something CPU-intensive? The bright colors of the UI affect your color perception and the buttons themselves feel a bit out of place, having borrowed the same mistake that windows has stuck with since the days of '95. Mac o/s classic got it right, close on the left and collapse and hide on the right...keeps you from accidentally quitting out of something. You may not entirely agree with me, but then again it's only my personal opinion. Try working with only 64MB RAM instead of 1GB and you will see what i mean :) My PowerBook has 256MB and the iMac 128MB, which is still less, but isn't bad having replaced the drives with nice 7000rpm ones, since Photoshop mostly writes to the page file anyway... Roswell :)

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                      • K Kevin McFarlane

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                        Minix 3! :D

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                        • C Chris Austin

                          Same here. VM is simply an engineering marvel. It's the new old thing these days.

                          My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

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                          Even better was AOS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOS/VS[^] with clean implementations of Multiprocessing - Multithreading, excellent CLI (command lang interpreter), IPC, language independent subroutine calling (aka .Net), excellent text editors, Adventure (when the bosses were not around) and even 2 column forefather of Norton commander! All this in 1979, shortly followed with the 32 bit version. No direct support for graphics, though, as was the norm then. But, the best thing was: the sources were available to the support organisations (on microfiche) : they were very well written, almost each line was commented and very understandable. (Assembly + DG/L [Algol like], as C was just getting in...)

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                          • G Gary R Wheeler

                            Twits. Didn't even include VAX/VMS in the list.


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                            The first real OS that I ever used...good memories...

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                            • S stephen hazel

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                              The Amiga OS, right ?

                              RIGHT ON, my bruh THAH !!

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                              You're having a laugh the Atari ST's OS was far superior to anything that the Amiga ever had! But the best was clearly the OS on the Acorn RISC OS - beautiful, functional and easy to program!

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                              • K Kevin McFarlane

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                                it was sponsored by big green no doubt.

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                                • R Ravi Bhavnani

                                  That's rubbish. Everyone knows the best OS was MVS[^]. /ravi

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                                  The best ever OS .... has to be GEORGE3, it was at least 2 generations ahead of its contemporaries. It had Virtual Memory and Virtual Filestore and sophisticated workload scheduling, the OS ran the operators and some very large businesses.... and that was back in the 1960's when things were measured in K's not M's and G's were never even dreamt of and tape was king because no one could afford those new-fangled little disc things (which weighed in at about 32lbs a piece). But it wasn't American and went the way of the British Empire. On Virtual Memory.... when IBM 'invented' it for OS360 they ran an ad .... "Tomorrow came Today to which ICL responded with a similar ad "No, Tomorrow came Yesterday".

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                                  • C Christian Graus

                                    The Amiga OS, right ? What a stupid idea for a poll. Vista is the best, precisely because most people who voted, have not used it, and are still believing the advertisements are true.

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                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    The Amiga OS, right ?

                                    Whatever happened ot the supposed rebirth of Amiga with their own OS?

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                                      You're having a laugh the Atari ST's OS was far superior to anything that the Amiga ever had! But the best was clearly the OS on the Acorn RISC OS - beautiful, functional and easy to program!

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                                      NRobbins wrote:

                                      But the best was clearly the OS on the Acorn RISC OS - beautiful, functional and easy to program!

                                      Someone is still living in the days of Neanderthal.

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                                      • C Chris Austin

                                        I'm not really a mac guy, but what do you find bloated about OS X?

                                        My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

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                                        Chris Austin wrote:

                                        I'm not really a mac guy, but what do you find bloated about OS X?

                                        My thoughts exactly. I've always been lead to believe that the family of mac OS's have been built around a unix kernel. which is exactly why they are more stable than windows machines, less resource dependant and therefore faster when compared to a windows machine running on an equivelant processor, and a processing powerhouses but useless for non-productivity software. Which is exactly why graphic developers desktop publishing and a large number of other industries rely almost entirely on Apple machines... well they used to.

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                                        • K Kevin McFarlane

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                                          BasicXL on the Atari 800XL, hands down.

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