Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 18 2022 10:46:58

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: Arelor to Nightfox on Sun Apr 17 2022 06:47 am

 Ar> I personally think the idea that Apple products just work has been
 Ar> generated by marketing rather than by actual product design. Apple
 Ar> customers have this idea that their products are so much easier to use
 Ar> than the competitor's but in this day and age any consumer-grade piece of
 Ar> electronics is a no-brainer to use. 

That's true.  Several years ago, at work at the job I had at the time, I was working on making some updates to a Mac sample app that our team had at the time.  I was using a MacBook for that at work, and I remember Apple's XCode occasionally crashing, and I was also using a Mac scripting program from Apple that would crash even more often.  It was a bit frustrating trying to work with tools like that..  Hopefully they've gotten better.

 Ar> Notice that Microsoft's developments regarding ease of use were aimed at
 Ar> domestic markets mostly. DOS and DOS based products were supposed to be
 Ar> the low tier in their software line. For serious users they had UNIX
 Ar> products instead. 

I've heard Microsoft had a UNIX they called Xenix, in the 80s, but I thought Microsoft was fairly anti-*nix for a long time.  Recently Microsoft has seemed to become more accepting of Linux and has been providing tools for Linux (they have a Linux version of Visual Studio Code, for instance).

Nightfox
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