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Fri, 29 March 2013 13:57   |
adrian
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
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> Sheesh. a religious nutcase.
>
> "Olde is better" (cf tyres)
> "New is better" Cf OS9).
I am trying to explain to you that "old" and "new" are non-concepts
where engineering is concerned. You are trying to categorise things
according to a false dictum.
The wheel and the lever are among the oldest machines known to mankind;
'phone apps are among the newest. Neither of these is inherently bad
or good because of when it was invented, they are good where they are
appropriate and do the job well.
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~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
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