At 8:11 PM +0100 9/16/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
Would it be totally off topic if everyone were to say what their
favourite OS was and why? I'm just a little curious as to what OS's
people use in this field.
Obviously, mine is Mac and OSX 10.4.11. My next one will be whatever
is the top of the line Apple has at the time I have to money for it.
Why?
Long story -- I won't go into my pre-Apple days building various
computers, but I started my relationship with Apple in 1977 when I
bought a mail order a 16k integer Apple ][. I wrote a lot of software
for the critter as it evolved over the years.
I bought my first Mac in 1984, and have continued with Mac's ever since.
My current system provides me with everything I want better than any
development system I have had before -- and I've had many. I don't
want to change to something else, because this works great for me and
until I'm faced with something I can't do, then I'll continue the
current course.
But another consideration -- I watched the micro-computer industry
change from "kids in a garage" wanting to show the world what they
can do -- to the world's largest corporations maximizing profits.
Sure the "kids in a garage" have matured and care about profits like
any other business, but they still seem to want to show people what
they can do rather than maximizing profits. There appears to be a
difference, at least to me.
So, partly what I have chosen is not only based upon on how stable
the platform is, and what it can do for me, but what I perceive the
parent company to be. Call it naive if you want, maybe I'm just a
treckie who doesn't know any better, or some washed up has-been --
but -- I've done some amazing things in programming efforts by simply
not knowing better and relying on Apple to do their part. Thus far,
they haven't let me down -- at least from a product point of view.
With respect to management, advertising, and establishing their
product as their product should be, they suck! How someone can lose
the market share to a problem prone second rate product is beyond me
-- but, that's another topic.
Cheers,
tedd
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