Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long

[Steve Weber <kd9bo@mac.com>]

> Unfortunately your reference to computer software is seriously scary,
> especially if you look at the time it has taken Mr. Gates to get his Windows
> op system to really work without crashing. It sends shivers down my back to
think this can be the same long-term problem with SDR's.

lurk mode: OFF

I have quietly read this list for years and rarely post, but I can't 
pass this one up.

Windows?  WINDOWS? We don' need no steenking Windows!

I use a windows machine at work because I HAVE to.
I fly a Macintosh at home because I WANT to.  My Powerbooks have been 
running OS-X for over three years and have NEVER frozen or crashed. 
Not once.  Programs will crash now and then (generally microsoft 
products,) but I have NEVER had to force restart a Mac running OS-X. 
Never.

Most ham software runs very nicely via Virtual PC (a slick emulation 
program that simulates a pentium and runs a legal copy of Windows 
whatever simultaneously with the Mac OS).  I am waiting for the day 
that the software folks dump the com ports and move into the current 
century with firewire and USB 2.

73 de KD9BO Steve

lurk mode: ON


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