Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 06:53:20 05/19/03
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On May 16, 2003 at 18:34:21, Roy Eassa wrote: >On May 13, 2003 at 17:18:10, Tord Romstad wrote: >>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 didn't really switch from Windows to MacOS -- I have never really used Windows for anything except running commercial chess programs. My home computer before I bought my first Mac was a x86 Linux box with a small Windows partition. At school and at work I have exclusively used various dialects of Unix (Irix, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD). My knowledge and experience about Windows is close to zero, and therefore I cannot really compare MacOS to Windows. For me, there were two major reasons for switching to MacOS, neither of which is likely to be relevant to most other people. The most important reason was that it is the only platform on which I can run Macintosh Common Lisp, which is by far my favorite development tool. A secondary reason was that I wanted a Unix system which was easier to administrate, and where I could use GUI tools for tasks where my knowledge of CLI tools is inadequate. During my Linux days, I was too often frustrated when trying to install new software or libraries. For a Unix person who wants a more user-friendly Unix, I think MacOS X is an excellent system. I can imagine that the world looks very different to a long-time MacOS user. >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. Shows how different users are. I have hardly ever used any of these features. >A 3rd thing: never needed drive letters, never had 'em, never will. What is "drive letters"? >And then there's resource forks -- oops, Apple is dropping those. Although I like the idea of resource forks, I find that it makes my life easier when they disappear. It is much less painful to transfer files between Macs and Unix boxes (which I often do) without the resource forks. >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). The speed of web browsing has never been a problem to me, but then I don't spend much time browsing the web. Tord
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