24 Jul 2012, 8:19 pm
Re: Mac V Windows V Linux.
Dark…sorry to tell you mate. A Mac book pro does benchmark better than a windows based PC with the exact same specs strait out of the box. Just because some people thinks they are great because they are shiny doesn't have anything to do with Apple's current marketing strategy of trying to pass off an inferior machine with nice looks. However, looks do mean alot. Apple plays to this on top of good performance and it pays off for them to the point where they are starting to surpass Windows on sales and revenue. I have yet to see a capable PC at a cost of 200$. Also, name a single laptop with a graphics card and the same stats as a MacBookPro for a rediculously lower price than Apple. It may be a difference of a couple hundred but that is hardly overcharging. You think Windows is original? Oh mate how I am going to blow this apart.
OS/2 a joint OS by Microsoft and IBM based on DOS. DOS was a successor of IBM PC DOS. IBM not microsoft developed DOS. DOS was then brought to Microsoft by IBM to create OS/2 which then the collaboration was screwed by Microsoft. Microsoft began development of Windows 3.0 and began marketing it on new PCs. 3.0 was based and is nearly identical to OS/2. Essentially IBM made some bad suggestions but Microsoft essentially stole the OS and its DOS functionality in order to create the first open marketed Windows version. From there Windows had issue with DOS…(something they essentially stole via the collaboration) and later dropped its handling of Windows in the Operating System / Operating Environment. See at that time Windows was technically an OE while DOS was the OS (Both of course ripped off from IBM.) From there Microsoft branched out to mess with the Windows X.X systems before creating the year system starting with Windows 95 which in itself was full of bugs and other serious issues.
Dark if you'd like I can gladly provide you with some benchmarking stats. Sadly though if you'd like to discuss Windows history and compare it I'm afraid that unless you do some good research mate as you've said before I was around to see it all. I actually used OS/2 and Windows 3.1. I remember when games were written only for DOS. You used to have to actually boot a computer into DOS just to run some of them b/c of the way windows functioned back then.
OS/2 a joint OS by Microsoft and IBM based on DOS. DOS was a successor of IBM PC DOS. IBM not microsoft developed DOS. DOS was then brought to Microsoft by IBM to create OS/2 which then the collaboration was screwed by Microsoft. Microsoft began development of Windows 3.0 and began marketing it on new PCs. 3.0 was based and is nearly identical to OS/2. Essentially IBM made some bad suggestions but Microsoft essentially stole the OS and its DOS functionality in order to create the first open marketed Windows version. From there Windows had issue with DOS…(something they essentially stole via the collaboration) and later dropped its handling of Windows in the Operating System / Operating Environment. See at that time Windows was technically an OE while DOS was the OS (Both of course ripped off from IBM.) From there Microsoft branched out to mess with the Windows X.X systems before creating the year system starting with Windows 95 which in itself was full of bugs and other serious issues.
Dark if you'd like I can gladly provide you with some benchmarking stats. Sadly though if you'd like to discuss Windows history and compare it I'm afraid that unless you do some good research mate as you've said before I was around to see it all. I actually used OS/2 and Windows 3.1. I remember when games were written only for DOS. You used to have to actually boot a computer into DOS just to run some of them b/c of the way windows functioned back then.
-Dale 
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Refuge: n. That which shelters or protects from danger or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
In-game admin/GMRefuge: n. That which shelters or protects from danger or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
