"Mike O'Dell" wrote in message
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Larry W4CSC wrote:

prodigal1 wrote in :

Larry W4CSC wrote:

and I have corrected through judicious snipping

One of the best things you can do to protect a Windoze computer is to
UNinstall Windows.

ahhh...that's better



The only problems are the alternatives. I use Linux on one computer
here.
Nice O/S, works great, but, unfortunately, the hackers writing
applications
for it have short attention spans. They get to ver .996b then lose
interest and move on to another, more interesting project, never
returning
to finally incorporate all the bug reports into ver 1.0. At least with
Windoze there's enough shareware money coming in to hold their attention
to
fixing the bugs. (I'm a shareware payer, by the way.)

I suppose you could buy a Mac, some do, but Apple has always been so
proprietary with their O/S it almost killed the company. Mac, with its
training wheels you can't remove, just isn't worth buying a $200 program
to
do something when the same functionality program for Windoze is $29 from
some shareware coder. For that reason, I've never been an Apple fan....

What else do we use, Sun Sparc?...(c;

Your view of MacOS is about 4 years old, anchored in MacOS-9.
almost everything you said about it has changed dramatically.

MacOS X is a very modern operating system,
open-source Unix at its core, great shareware apps,
and with an exemplary level of quality never seen in
a product from suburban Redmond.

I spent a week using a Mac this winter. It hung up on the average of twice
a day. My XP machine hasn't hung up in over 1.5 years of almost
24/7 use.

-mo