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Heru:
Lets see, the first GUI was actually made by Xerox around 1980.  
Mac's GUI was around in 1983.
MS's GUI(Windows 1.2) was around in 1985.
Ms was promptly sued by Apple because Windows looked too much like MacOS, Apple also sued a company that made GEM(an alternative to Windows; it was a DOS GUI, like Windows, but looked almost exactly like the MacOS GUI)

Anyhow, if a wintel drone is so obsessed with games tell him that many Windows games do work on the mac, some natively(like Starcraft, Warcraft2, Diablo 1 and 2), and others with VirtualPC.  I even own a few of them.

IvoryTower:
timrob: I enjoyed reading your post. I wish I had been a fly on your wall that day    

BTW How often are you approached like that? I hope it's not a frequent occurance. It would be interesting to know where all of this FUD originated and how/why it is spreading to our youth.

I have to say it...I find it laughable to think that a computer sucks because there is a limited number of games available for it. I'd like to find out if these 'hard-core' gamers think that Sun or SGI machines (to name VERY few) suck becuase "all they do is provide the backbone for global e-commerce" or "continuously render terabytes of special effects for movies". What ever happened to the notion of a computer being a tool vs. a toy? (heh, and geeks have said that the Mac OS is a toy...the tables have turned)

Cheers

[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: IvoryTower ]

voidmain:
Are you kidding? As far as those kids know, Sun is for tanning and Silicon Graphics is what makes Britney Spear's boobs so large.

cloudstrife:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Are you kidding? As far as those kids know, Sun is for tanning and Silicon Graphics is what makes Britney Spear's boobs so large.
--- End quote ---


Ya got that right - at my school, me and my friend are the only two people that know that "macos" and "windows" DO NOT mean "mac" and "pc".  Nevermind our school's tech "professionals", their motto seems to be "plug the cord where it fits and hope it works!"
Most of the time when i am working in solaris and one of the "h4x0rs" comes up it goes like this:

h4x0r: whoa!  what version of DOS is that?
me: ummm... it's solaris
h4x0r: huh?  what does that program do?
me: it's an operating system
h4x0r: you mean like windows?  can i play counter-strike on it?
me: no... but you can run for over a day without rebooting ten times.
h4x0r: man you are dumb, why use an operating system thats so useless?  there's not even a mouse pointer!!  I'm gonna go download sub7 and crash another losers windows xp machine.

Heru:

quote:Originally posted by cloudstrife:


Ya got that right - at my school, me and my friend are the only two people that know that "macos" and "windows" DO NOT mean "mac" and "pc".  Nevermind our school's tech "professionals", their motto seems to be "plug the cord where it fits and hope it works!"
Most of the time when i am working in solaris and one of the "h4x0rs" comes up it goes like this:

h4x0r: whoa!  what version of DOS is that?
me: ummm... it's solaris
h4x0r: huh?  what does that program do?
me: it's an operating system
h4x0r: you mean like windows?  can i play counter-strike on it?
me: no... but you can run for over a day without rebooting ten times.
h4x0r: man you are dumb, why use an operating system thats so useless?  there's not even a mouse pointer!!  I'm gonna go download sub7 and crash another losers windows xp machine.
--- End quote ---


Ya, at my high school the tech people are about that smart.  There is a PC repair class, and one of the things they make sure you know how to do is how to install Windows 95.  They don't even mention Linux or Unix at all.  They teach you about Windows, and that all, while leading you to believe that it'll get you far in the IT industry.  I brought up Linux once and a few students said: "What's that?  Some sort of game?  Does it work in Windows 2000?"  Laughable really.
When I explained that it was an OS, they said: "Who cares if I don't have to reboot it, can I play Ultima Online in it?"

And as for the teacher, he knew what Linux was, but he didn't think it was necessary to teach us anything about it.


And one time I had brought my Hal91 Linux floppy, and used it, interesting reactions I got from people for that one.

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