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Spelling: Agreed. MacOS: Disagree
I can only guess that English is not his primary language.

The original MacOS was not copied and was better than you want to believe. After all, that's what Windows '95 and '98 were patterned after. I used it from '92 through '02 and almost never had the freeze you complain about. Sure, I got the occasional "bomb" message, but I was always able to perform a clean shutdown even with that window up. I was also proud of the fact that even when my wife managed to somehow corrupt the boot sector of the Mac I owned when we met (she was in tears because she thought I'd be mad at her), I simply rebooted holding down a single key and the system restored itself--no floppy disk needed. No more than half an hour later it was working as well as before she crashed it--with no data lost. Oh, and she is now a UNIX-certified, Microsoft certified systems administrator doing things in computer systems you could hardly imagine. That one experience with my Mac had her wanting to find out how it was done and over the years she has become one of the top SAs--correction, System Engineers--for one of the largest banks in the world.

Meanwhile, OS X is a separate, certified version of UNIX, though I will acknowledge that it started with BSD at its core. That doesn't make it a copy because UNIX itself does not have a GUI--Apple created the GUI themselves--using Steve Jobs' NeXT operating system as a seed. 10.8.2 is cleaner and faster than ever, even on a 5-year-old iMac using a Core2Duo processor--the minimum allowed processor for the version.
Posted by DWFields
25th Sep