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The Natural Philosoph
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On 29/03/13 08:44, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
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>> On 28/03/13 21:38, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
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>>>
>>> Mac OS 8 and 9 are still perfectly adequate for non-entertainment work
>>> and have many good features which were thrown away when Mac introduced
>>> OSX. And yes, I do run it natively on all but one of my machines.
>>>
>> How's your pet brontosauraus?
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> As an engineer, my choices are based on what does the job best, not on
> what is currently fashionable. My car has pneumatic tyres (Dunlop
> 1888), my house is fitted with ordinary water taps (Brecknell 1859) and
> my video projector uses an arc lamp (Davy 1801).
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> If you want to use the most up-to-date computer system, bear in mind
> that OSX is based on UNIX from 1969, whereas MacOS is much newer,
> having been first released in 1984.
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>
all ultimately 'written' in machine code, which predates the lot of them.
Sheesh. a religious nutcase.
"Olde is better" (cf tyres)
"New is better" Cf OS9).
cant you come up with something better than that? like " *nix had proper
pre-emptive multi tasking years before os9 and windows failed to
implement it correctly"
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Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.
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