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From: mail25193@pop.net (Fred Trottelhauer)
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Subject: Re: Apple Mach IS NOT a microkernel!!!!!
Date: 19 Feb 1997 04:31:03 GMT
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In <jm041536-1702972018170001@mencjo.apple.com>, jm041536@fhda.edu
(Joaquin Menchaca) writes:
> Microsoft with licenses from DEC will implement a
>distributed cluster based Operating System with Windows NT 5.0.
This will need to be watched very carefully, since Microsoft up until now
has shown itself to be oriented, under the guise of a cheerily populist
"software for the people", only towards foisting stunted garbage onto the
public. Mircosoft rakes in billions by virtue of its marketing skill while
real computing power is not allowed to reach the masses; Bill gets press as
such a lovely bright young man while the interests that would maintain a
mediocre status quo and a population which is not independent have their
needs met. If this is another effort in that same vein, then it isn't worth
a damn. The company reminds me of what a New York City resident said in my
hearing one day, "we're the greatest city in the world. We have the greatest
art, the most brilliant minds, the finest culture. We buy it all." That mode
does nothing to maintain a living discipline, a growing ecosystem (computing
ecosystem in this case) - it reduces it to a dead commodity sold by degenerate
undead profiteers to stupified consumers. Mircosoft should stick to end-user
products for the low end of the market, and keep its nose out of areas of the
industry that matter in more than the short term.
> [...]Some may say this is analogous to the Borg in
>Star Trek.
Your references aren't really an asset to your case...
Fred
Just as an aside, imagine for a moment what things would be like if everyone
in the workplace (note ! - just the workplace) who now has a PC on their desk
running a DOS/MS derivative would instead have a PC on their desk running Unix
with a GUI, a minimal administrative interface, and the productivity tools
equivalent to what they have under MS (which exist, please don't even start that
discussion.)
Imagine !
Half _years_ between reboots
No stalls as your OS decides it's time to do some multitasking
Fast task switching from the user perspective instead of Sominex-qualified
GUIs
Real, fast networking without hiccups and hangs
Grown-up quality distributed facilities for file sharing and security
A computing base that doesn't need a "revolution" every few years just
to keep pace with hardware growth and user needs, because instead it
is a non-stunted and correct implementation of the cutting
edge of developments in the field.
Imagine, particularly if you're involved in the business end of things, the
BILLIONS of dollars in increased productivity which would be realized if this
were the case now, nevermind if it had been the case for the last say eight
years.
Microsoft just doesn't cut it as the candidate to lead the way into the
computing future. Others are more than qualified.