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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by michaelmrose on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:43PM (#17215774)
First off were the 90s macs really terrible in comparison to the present state of the art at the time?

Second its easier for people to grow to be better at their job than to grow into being better people.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by ms013 on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:58AM (#17224778)
Re: macs. Yes. MacOS releases up to 1999 lacked features common in other systems, like full preemptive multitasking and memory protection. Windows NT had that in the mid 90s, and various Unix flavors had it for decades. I liked the UI on the macs vs windows95/98/NT or Linux/Solaris, but the stability of macs was a joke. Everyone was pretty happy when they cleaned up NeXTSTEP and turned it into the basis for OSX - that was a very smart move.
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