Jere Lull wrote in news:jerelull-DE5725.19552809022007
@news.bellatlantic.net:

UNIX is much more stable.


That's very true, but what % of the software everyone wants to
run....runs under Windoze? Owning a MAC has always meant being fleeced
by Apple for proprietary software and left out of the freeware/shareware
legacy. It's like standing on the sidelines all suited up to play
football, but not allowed to play on the field.

Apple's greed was long ago trumped by Billy letting OTHER people have
easy access to port their programs to DOS. It was simply a stroke of
genius on his part that made, no matter how you hate them, Micro$oft the
standard for the PC.

CP/M was quite stable, too, but it went nowhere.
Remember the "other" DOS competitors he blew out of the water?
PS2 anyone?

Apple had their chance, got greedy as hell, and blew it. MAC is a very
nice machine and quite stable....but it's NOT what the software is
written for at tucows.com, download.com or any of the other shareware
sites....

Vista will stablize...just like XP did...about 2 months before Micro$not
abandons it for another buggy bloatware OS rendition. Win98SE is very
stable....still! It downloads from usenet with Xnews for weeks without
crashing, here....(c;

Now, this is on-topic because we're running DOS 5 or 6 on boats....(c;

Larry
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