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yesthattomAfter getting all the right permissions from my employer, my Mac has finally been ordered.
Wow, I've never owned a Mac. I was an Amiga bigot. How bad was I? I invented the Usenet newsgroup name "comp.sys.amiga.advocacy" (and the ".advocacy" moniker has been become a Usenet tradition.)
Thinking about it today, it dawned on me that Mac OS X is exactly what every Amiga person always wanted. You see, the die-hard Amiga users were also Unix heads. We mod'ed AmigaDOS to the point where we were using ported Unix shells, Unix editors, Unix commands, etc. It was faux-Unix with a killer user interface. No memory management, but what's a crash or two? Mac OS X is all that, but its REAL unix (and not that lame AT&T SVRx stuff either) with real memory protection and real VM.
I can't wait!
Wow, I've never owned a Mac. I was an Amiga bigot. How bad was I? I invented the Usenet newsgroup name "comp.sys.amiga.advocacy" (and the ".advocacy" moniker has been become a Usenet tradition.)
Thinking about it today, it dawned on me that Mac OS X is exactly what every Amiga person always wanted. You see, the die-hard Amiga users were also Unix heads. We mod'ed AmigaDOS to the point where we were using ported Unix shells, Unix editors, Unix commands, etc. It was faux-Unix with a killer user interface. No memory management, but what's a crash or two? Mac OS X is all that, but its REAL unix (and not that lame AT&T SVRx stuff either) with real memory protection and real VM.
I can't wait!
