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Originally Posted by Phalanx
Whatever happen to simple elegance?
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It got to be too much work, cheaper to just throw hardware at it. But, some of it still lives at Apple.
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Originally Posted by BrendanB
But I really like Windows7  But I might go to a mac down the road as my cousin has had his for several years with no problems and it runs so much faster than my computer. |
Good story, hope it gets fixed fast.
If you think a mac runs fast, try running DOS on a modern computer. That was when elegance wasn't an option - if you couldn't make it run in <640k RAM, it didn't run - and people still had to get things done as fast as possible, but with a 5 MHz clock speed.
For certain (non-commercial) programs, I still run DOS, because it's easier to write in and executes very fast on a 100 MHz Pentium. Same calculations in XP take longer.
Of course, my daily PC runs XP. Another prisoner of Windows. It could be worse (CP/M for instance)
