Open Letter to CBM
07-Oct-91 20:10:59
Sb: #14996-Open Letter to CBM
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
What *I* read was that it was superior to at least some others. They threw
the Mac implementation out of the running at at least one school on the
basis of benchmarks and reliability – or so they said.
It's not hardware dependant – so, I can take binaries from Larry's machine
and run them on a 486 platform? And the Mac? And the Amiga? And the NeXt?
Without compiling? Without changing disk formats? If so, then the
performance is going to be garbage. If not, it's not "hardware
independant". If by hardware independant, you mean that you can recompile
and run, fine – except that again, the vast majority of computer users (who
are MSDOS users, of course) will NEVER do this in a million years.
Unix is far better than MSDOS. Fine. And it doesn't stand a chance against
it as the most popular / common / used operating system. I've not heard a
word here to make me think otherwise – but time will tell.
–Ben