[plug] windows - a rant

[Michael Collard]

Windows is a joke at best.

That about sums it up for me. Don't get me wrong, I could rant on
through pages and pages of reasons for the above but I think you all
know (or should know) what I mean :)

Michael Collard

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:02, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 16:48, George Raphael wrote:
> 
> > There are clearly some very poor operating systems. Two that come to mind
> > are Windows 98 and Mac OS 7. They weren't even good at the time. DOS was
> > more stable.
> 
> ?!?
> 
> I would've put OS7 up there with the _best_ when it was released. While
> it's reliability wasn't 100%, it was reasonably solid - and otherwise a
> very good OS. Even if you did need an add-on TCP/IP stack and PPP
> software. Remember, though, that OS7 was around for a long time, and
> perhaps didn't age very gracefully. IFIRC, OS7 was initially up against
> Windows 3.1.1, before the release of Win95 - and there was just no
> contest.
> 
> OS9, on the other hand, deserves a place below even Win98 IMHO. No
> protected memory, a really shoddy (IMHO) virtual memory system, no SMP
> support except through a scary application-level library, etc. Bad fonts
> also cause it to fall on its face, often in bizarre and truly unexpected
> ways. To top it all off, it doesn't seem to do network disk access
> asynchronously - if a program accesses something on a network volume,
> almost everything _stops_ until it gets it. If the remote machine
> happens to have crashed... you're in for quite a wait.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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