From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew Simmons" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [9fans] missing compilers? Message-ID: <3D4F8DF3.18613.27913A3F@localhost> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:50:59 +1200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d85fbee0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'll second Russ's comment: why not upgrade? Partly a matter of cost, and partly a matter of taste. OS X runs like a pig on last year's top of the line model, and is none too flash on the current top of the line. So you'll need new hardware, plus you just know that none of your old applications will work, so you'll have to buy new versions. And get new drivers for your peripherals, if you can. And having shelled out thousands of dollars, what do you get? A confusing new user interface bolted on top of a "new" operating system which is based on Carnegie-Mellon's 1980's version of an operating system from the 70's. At which point you start to think that even Bill Gates never legged you over to quite this extent, and start looking at Windows machines.