Yesterday’s commentary (1/13/05) from John Sheesley, Senior Editor – TechProGuild kinda’ rubbed me the wrong way… maybe that’s what John intended.
John starts off with “It’s just that in almost 20 years of working with computers for dozens of different companies, I can probably count on two hands the number of Macs I’ve had to work with. I’m not living in a sheltered world either,…”
Uh… John, I hate to inform you big guy… you ARE living in a sheltered world!
I started out in 1979/80 wire wrapping my own Z80’s and 8080’s, fought my way through CP/M, slogged into and through DOS 1.1 and have really come to appreciate those early days. Not that I want to relive writing binary KEX Kernals and dealing with 16kb of RAM ever again! I’m glad those days are long gone. In those days you really appreciated what code was and how much it took to write lean code. When we first got Windows 3.0 (The first GUI that actually worked) I was amazed at what was possible, but quickly realized what the term stability had meant under command line.
But when you have so little real world experience with an OS that you create such misinformed statements as above, I just gotta respond.
I hate to make light of your commentary like this, but I didn’t write it, you did. You say, “The problem comes in when you have to support a Mac in a Windows environment.” Yeah, I know what you mean! You STILL gotta’ support those Windows machines!
I’m responsible for a fairly substantial hybrid network… and EVERY part of it!
My Mac’s give me about 400% LESS trouble than the Microsoft boxes and I have 2 to 1 – Mac’s to Microsoft. If I weren’t an in-house admin, I guess I’d really love Windows. They are a constant source of income for consultants and vendors. The constant security threats, viruses and upgrades are the bane of my admin existance.
I have hundreds of thousands of images to move, thousands of postscript files, millions of data records to handle and I can’t afford the problems that the Microsoft OS’s can leave me with at the end of the day.
It wasn’t that long ago that I was as rabid a Microsoft user as I am now a Mac Hack. I saw the light and have never regretted my change in aliances to Mac, both personally and professionally.
I’m only sorry that you haven’t really had the chance to test drive a new OSX box. I think you’ld be pleasantly supprised at how tank like the OS really is. (M1 Abrahms that is.)
Not that OSX is the be all end all. No computer is or ever will be. There is no “idiot proof” system. The idiots are too resourseful!
I just wish that those of you who are not knowledgable about Mac would take the time to enlighten yourselves to be more than slaves of the 8088 instruction set.
