Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:34:21 05/16/03
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On May 13, 2003 at 17:18:10, Tord Romstad wrote: >On May 13, 2003 at 13:23:03, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Perhaps the author of this cartoon was right all the time: >> >>http://www.computerschach.de/winrebel.gif > >ROTFL! > Me too! >For me it is not very important that Rebel gets ported to Windows. I switched >to MacOS a few years ago, and I am sure a MacOS version of Rebel will not even >be seen in the fourth millennium. I'd be interested in hearing how/why you switched! I've been a major Mac user/programmer for 15 years and still have/use a Mac (G4) daily, but now that Windows has a "desktop" and long filenames, and especially since Mac OS X is not much like the Mac any more (one example: you can no longer back up open files, so you can't just drag the image of your boot drive or system folder to a spare drive to duplicate the whole thing), I'm using the PC more and the Mac less. Of course, I wouldn't dream of NOT having BOTH systems, and it will never be 100%-0% usage for me. There certainly still are numerous aspects of the Mac to prefer to the PC, IMHO. One example: filenames can and always could include question marks, slashes, and asterisks (etc.). Another example: several features are unique to the Finder (e.g., expandable/collapsible folders, folders sorted with files by each sorting criteria) and not available on the PC at all, AFAIK, even via 3rd party tools. A 3rd thing: never needed drive letters, never had 'em, never will. And then there's resource forks -- oops, Apple is dropping those. But nowadays there are also numerous aspects of the PC to prefer as well, IMHO. One big one: web browsing tends to be faster (although I like the new tabbed version of Apple's browser, Safari). > >However, I have something else to ask: The fascinating chess programming section >on your homepage has apparently not been updated for a long time. Is there any >hope for an update any time soon? > >Thank you very much for the many secrets you have revealed so far! > >Tord
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