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Originally Posted by willravel
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Okay, so you're not making a distinction. That's good, because MacOS 9 was less stable than anything Microsoft has ever and, it looks like, will ever put out...
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Yes. The more stable the operating system, the less likely the program, whether stable on it's own or not, is to fail. I've had AOL crash on my comp at work, but never at home. I've had Firefox, Explorer, etc. all crash or freeze at work, on a technically faster machine, but not at home. The comp at work is basically a Gateway, 2 point something GB processor, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB memory. It has all the basic programs, and I only run a few at a time, nothing that takes up a lot of popwer like games and such. My comp at home is a second gen eMac with a 1GB G4 processor, 1024MB (1GB) of RAM, and a slight modification (I built in a video card). The computer at work should be faster, but it's not. Not by a long shot.
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You're still drawing false conclusions.
You're not running the same programs on your Mac that you are on your PC, especially when you talk about running "Explorer" and stuff. Because these are not the same application, your comparisons of application stability being attributed to the OS is deeply flawed...
Indeed, and this is not an attack of any kind, you don't appear to be too familiar with how computers work. For instance, when describing your computers, you refered to the processors as being 1 or 2 GB. This clearly makes no sense. You obviously meant GHz and I would normally just take this as a typo (although that, too, is unlikely) but you did so rather consistently, leaving me to believe that you don't really understand what these things are measuring. Furthermore, I get the impression that you think your work computer is "technically" faster than your home machine because it has a higher clock frequency. Is this correct?
I would be more than happy to weigh the honest merits of Windows vs MacOS or even Macs vs PCs (although this would be a shorter debate). I am intimately familiar with Windows and I have a passing familiarity with MacOS X (and MacOS 9) having developed software on all these platforms...