[SpamCop-List] Re: newsgroup vs. forum

[Berny]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:dn4k00$52v$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Berny wrote:
> > "Mike Easter"
> Yes.  The OS wars were very intense in those days.  My OS is better than
> your OS.  The Atari-ites believed that their OS was better than the
> Amiga's, the Apple's, definitely the IBM & DOS related rigs.  Even tho'
> the Amiga developed some rather advanced features compared to the
> others.  Some of us tinkered with emulating Macs with a gizmo called the
> Magic Sac.  It had a set of Mac roms in a cartridge and you could boot
> up in Mac mode -- but the Mac system was so much less efficient than the
> Atari TOS that it wasn't really an enjoyable experience to me.

Hmm,, I had a software emulator for the mac (Shareware) on my amiga, and
while the graphics were about the same, it was as fast as or faster than the
mac on the same hardware.

And it was sure nice to have a real multitasking machine, something none of
the others provided until Win95 (sort of) and Mac OS8 (sort of).

I had been spoiled working on VM370 (IBM) using TSO, and CMS, and I just
couldn't concieve of using a computer that could only run one application
and that had never heard of intertask communication, and that didn't have a
common macro language (REXX) that could address most well written
applications as well as the OS.

Well since leaving the Amiga behind, I still don't have most of that.

The OS supplied text editors for Win and UNIX/Linux frankly suck compared to
IBM XEDIT, none of the macro languages or Command line shells can talk to
each other let alone an application. The closest thing now is Virtual Basic,
but it only talks to primarily M$oft applications, and not all of them.

No modern computers allow dedicated hardware access by user/task without
expensive add ons, so we now have LANS where when you put a tape or a CD in
a drive it belongs to everybody unless it's on your own CPU.

Sigh,,,  If you want to talk a real operating system the closest you come to
it is VaxVMS nowadays, ugly as it may be.