...it didn't even have a UI. Just text based applications. It only had 640Kb and a floppy that held 360Kb.
Macs and PCs have been around so long that everyone has had a bad experience. I basically wouldn't touch a PC, prefering my 32bit Acorns at home and a Mac at work, until Linux and Windows 95/NT4 came a long. Then over the remainder of the 90s Macs got steadily worse and Windows got steadily better to the point that XP Pro isn't too bad and I only have to reboot once a week. Then OS-X came out and a whole new situation with it. That, and the falling hardware price, is what got my to move to Mac at home.
Linux is about 15 years old, 32 bit Windows is 12 years old, OS-X is 7. But the lower levels of OS-X are BSD and suffer the same insecurities that any other OS using GNU libraries, applications and utilities do so not really many at all. The application layer is newer and that's what they hacked. The question is how does the security of that layer compare to say Linux or Windows?
There is no one true OS. Each has their advantages and their floors. OS-X suits me at home and Linux suits me for my development work. I use XP on the rare occasions I play games.
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...it didn't even have a UI. Just text based applications. It only had 640Kb and a floppy that held 360Kb.
Macs and PCs have been around so long that everyone has had a bad experience. I basically wouldn't touch a PC, prefering my 32bit Acorns at home and a Mac at work, until Linux and Windows 95/NT4 came a long. Then over the remainder of the 90s Macs got steadily worse and Windows got steadily better to the point that XP Pro isn't too bad and I only have to reboot once a week. Then OS-X came out and a whole new situation with it. That, and the falling hardware price, is what got my to move to Mac at home.
Linux is about 15 years old, 32 bit Windows is 12 years old, OS-X is 7. But the lower levels of OS-X are BSD and suffer the same insecurities that any other OS using GNU libraries, applications and utilities do so not really many at all. The application layer is newer and that's what they hacked. The question is how does the security of that layer compare to say Linux or Windows?
There is no one true OS. Each has their advantages and their floors. OS-X suits me at home and Linux suits me for my development work. I use XP on the rare occasions I play games.