OT: The semantics of the terms PC/Mac

[Steve Flynn]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
>
> Its so in the future I will not have to pay back licensing fees for using the
> name, because everything about windoze irks me, and because it doesn't
> qualify a a real operating system; it is more like the borg and just
> assimilates other peoples work.

I presume your tongue is firmly in cheek.

To be perfectly honest, I really don't see what the massive problem is
with Windows. I don't seem to suffer from the pain and anguish which
many users complain of. I don't recall the last time I had a BSoD on
any of my Windows machines (2 vista, 1 XP with a copy of Windows 7 due
to land any day now). Guess I'm just lucky. Then again, I don't have
endless amounts of poor quality software installed, P2P sharing
software, screensavers to draw pretty fish, cracked games, malware,
etc. My software portfolio consists of applications like Oracle,
PowerExchange, PowerCenter(sic), PL/SQL Developer, Visual Studio,
Enterprise Architect, OpenOffice, Outlook 2003, etc. All just works.

I'm a developer on several platforms (AIX, OpenMVS, Windows, Linux and
to a certain degree OSX) and as such, I need my environments to be
stable. Here, in my office, they all are. Without exception.

Oddly enough, my work colleagues also have the same story as me - our
kit just works... constantly. It's not massively high-end stuff
either. Compaq nc6120 laptops running windows XP, IBM Power 570
servers with AIX 5.3L (getting long in the tooth now), etc. I have a
seperate laptop for a Linux installation (multi-boot RedHat, Debian
and a custom distro we use in-house for testing).

I have no real preference for any of the OS'es I list above - if I had
to pick one to work on for pleasure, it would be MVS.

Statements like "it doesn't qualify as a real operatign system" just
make me chuckle.

--
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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