A bit of levity in the Windows vs. Linux vein

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Whirled Peas

I use ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP at work. For a long time I was
the 'default' tech guy at the office, so have spent hours setting up
Windows (Then Win NT) on computers of various shape, sizes and
indeterminate hardware. This article made me chuckle.

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5937

This is not a "Let's start a Windows vs. Linux flame war!" thread.
 
On 26 Mar 2006, Whirled Peas wrote
I use ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP at work. For a long
time I was the 'default' tech guy at the office, so have spent
hours setting up Windows (Then Win NT) on computers of various
shape, sizes and indeterminate hardware. This article made me
chuckle.

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5937

This is not a "Let's start a Windows vs. Linux flame war!"
thread.
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No use: trying to cool down people who are involved in a religious
war never works...

A couple of weeks ago I said that "every OS sucks, they just suck in
different ways", and Morten Skarstad posted this link in response:

http://www.deadtroll.com/video/ossuckscable.html
 
I use ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP at work. For a long time I was
the 'default' tech guy at the office, so have spent hours setting up
Windows (Then Win NT) on computers of various shape, sizes and
indeterminate hardware. This article made me chuckle.

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5937

This is not a "Let's start a Windows vs. Linux flame war!" thread.
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Oh, c'mon! It's been at least a day! :-)

Andy
 
BUT .. Linux is good cause it's free .. yada yada yada but microsoft
owns the world yada yada yada ... OOOPS .. lets not go there
 
HVS said:
On 26 Mar 2006, Whirled Peas wrote


No use: trying to cool down people who are involved in a religious
war never works...

A couple of weeks ago I said that "every OS sucks, they just suck in
different ways", and Morten Skarstad posted this link in response:

http://www.deadtroll.com/video/ossuckscable.html
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Definitely excellent!! Thanks for reposting the link.

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I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
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spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
Whirled said:
I use ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP at work. For a long time I
was the 'default' tech guy at the office, so have spent hours setting
up Windows (Then Win NT) on computers of various shape, sizes and
indeterminate hardware. This article made me chuckle.

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5937

This is not a "Let's start a Windows vs. Linux flame war!" thread.
Click to expand...


Both rely on the same hardware.

Fighting about that would copy the real behaviour of the real World. :-(




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

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Al said:
Well, sorta. Ever see Windows running on a 68000?
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Or a PowerPC?

Or an ARM?

Or a SPARC?

Or a MIPS?

Or a PA-RISC?

Or an Alpha?

Or an M88000?

Or an S/360?

Or a VAX?

....

Cheers,
Gary B-)

P.S. Yes, I _know_ that WinNT3 ran on some of them, but Win2K on are
x86 only (well, x64 too)
 
Gary said:
Or a PowerPC?

Or an ARM?

Or a SPARC?

Or a MIPS?

Or a PA-RISC?

Or an Alpha?

Or an M88000?

Or an S/360?

Or a VAX?

...

Cheers,
Gary B-)

P.S. Yes, I know that WinNT3 ran on some of them, but Win2K on are
x86 only (well, x64 too)
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Sigh.


Hi Gary!


Why is always a second one needed to understand one.



Well, I like the 68000. It's fast and powerful.
But PLEEEASE, not with UNIX. Better TOS or AmigaOS !!!
I remember it (NetBSD) on a 68030/50 GVP... slow! Swapping all the
time. Better something Pentium or so, for Unix respectively Linux.



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
Daniel said:
Gary R. Schmidt wrote:





Sigh.


Hi Gary!


Why is always a second one needed to understand one.



Well, I like the 68000. It's fast and powerful.
But PLEEEASE, not with UNIX. Better TOS or AmigaOS !!!
I remember it (NetBSD) on a 68030/50 GVP... slow! Swapping all the
time. Better something Pentium or so, for Unix respectively Linux.
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Well, I used M68K's on bare silicon, no OS, or perhaps an RT monitor
such as pSOS. Very _very_ fast! But you had to manage your own memory.

The Amiga was nice, but I saw too many "Guru Meditation" errors when
nothing was going on to really trust it.

The '040s were where Motorola got everything that was needed into a
single package, worked like a dream in VME systems.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Gary said:
Well, I used M68K's on bare silicon, no OS, or perhaps an RT monitor
such as pSOS. Very very fast! But you had to manage your own memory.

The Amiga was nice, but I saw too many "Guru Meditation" errors when
nothing was going on to really trust it.

The '040s were where Motorola got everything that was needed into a
single package, worked like a dream in VME systems.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
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Hi Gary!



Sounds like you are doing MC on the MC68000.


Yeah, Gurus. I saw alot, but mostly due to unconform coding and writing
into memory-regions reserved to the OS and Kickstart. Some Software
were real 'hacks' :-). Only 1.2 or 1.3 etc...

The 040 is a totally other speed-region. I also had a 060 combined with
a nice ZorroII SVGA-Card (Picasso-II), SCSI etc. Now I retired to a
plain A2000 1Chip FAT Agnus/8Fast and Kick1.3 os 1.3. --- I have to
search my other A2000. It was/is a rev.6 with the latest hardware (2MB
Chip Full ECS BIG Agnus - as the mighty A500+ later).

The Mouse movement is still fascinating me and only a fast XP System
with an USB Mouse can come close to it, but not better :-)




Kind Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
I use ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP at work. For a long time I was
the 'default' tech guy at the office, so have spent hours setting up
Windows (Then Win NT) on computers of various shape, sizes and
indeterminate hardware. This article made me chuckle.

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5937

This is not a "Let's start a Windows vs. Linux flame war!" thread.
Click to expand...

Great article though, countering the usual ones on the difficulty or
otherwise of switching from Windows to Linux.

I like the reference to Windows being "too much like Linspire" - neat!
 
Daniel Mandic wrote:
[SNIP]
Sounds like you are doing MC on the MC68000.
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Back in the early to mid 1980s was my heyday on the M68K.
Yeah, Gurus. I saw alot, but mostly due to unconform coding and writing
into memory-regions reserved to the OS and Kickstart. Some Software
were real 'hacks' :-). Only 1.2 or 1.3 etc...

The 040 is a totally other speed-region. I also had a 060 combined with
a nice ZorroII SVGA-Card (Picasso-II), SCSI etc. Now I retired to a
plain A2000 1Chip FAT Agnus/8Fast and Kick1.3 os 1.3. --- I have to
search my other A2000. It was/is a rev.6 with the latest hardware (2MB
Chip Full ECS BIG Agnus - as the mighty A500+ later).
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Hmm, dare I suggest that you have more money than sense :-)
The Mouse movement is still fascinating me and only a fast XP System
with an USB Mouse can come close to it, but not better :-)
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"Fast" mice! No way, I prefer precision over speed.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Gary said:
Daniel Mandic wrote:
[SNIP]
Sounds like you are doing MC on the MC68000.
Click to expand...
Back in the early to mid 1980s was my heyday on the M68K.
Yeah, Gurus. I saw alot, but mostly due to unconform coding and
writing into memory-regions reserved to the OS and Kickstart. Some
Software were real 'hacks' :-). Only 1.2 or 1.3 etc...

The 040 is a totally other speed-region. I also had a 060 combined
with a nice ZorroII SVGA-Card (Picasso-II), SCSI etc. Now I retired
to a plain A2000 1Chip FAT Agnus/8Fast and Kick1.3 os 1.3. --- I
have to search my other A2000. It was/is a rev.6 with the latest
hardware (2MB Chip Full ECS BIG Agnus - as the mighty A500+ later).
Click to expand...
Hmm, dare I suggest that you have more money than sense :-)
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No way. I would not write here if it would be so. :-)

But the AMIGA is a good example, investing in something for nothing.
Now, many try to do it otherwise (not investing) - probably with the
same result ;-)

The Middle is unreachable. :-|
Maybe remaining silent. That would be in the middle of talking and
listening.





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
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