En réponse à "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101@xxxxxxxxx>: > Okay, where to start... > > Apple has made a very large number of innovations, Pascal is FAR > superior to C, and C++ IS a horrible language (I feel sorry for those > on this list who have been mislead otherwise). At the time of the Mac I think the real innovation was the Amiga... Besides... #define BEGIN { #define END } #define IF if ( #define THEN ) { #define else } else { #define ENDIF } guess who is superior now ? (believe me, I actually saw it in the source code of a BeOS driver !) > > True, the BeOS does not have any real, unique innovations. It does > nothing that is really new... but those things it does, it does better > than most of the other operating systems on the market. It is not the > only OS doing SMP, but it does SMP better than nearly any other OS I > have ever seen or worked with. And LIGHTNING-fast... faster than DOS > in some cases! > Well, even if BFS didn't invent the concept of attributes and indices, ... (XFS did it before), it brought them to the public. > I am certainly looking forward to the release of OpenBEOS, or whatever > it is being renamed to. I won't give up my Macs for it, but I've been That I know, but can't tell yet :P (Walter Rox^W^Whmm...) François.