[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[William Mahaffey]

hmmm... the one I use in the shack cost under 1k.

bill w6eet 

well, until I upped the memory to 640mb..

wait, didn't gates once say that nobody would
ever need more than 640k of memory?
Now there is an individual with forsight!

sorry..I'll stop now.




> the only thing about macs is that it crashes your wallet
:-).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Steve
Weber
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 6:39 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Unfortunately your reference to computer software is
seriously scary,
> >especially if you look at the time it has taken Mr. Gates
to get his
> Windows
> >op system to really work without crashing. It sends
shivers down my 
> back to
> think this can be the same long-term problem with SDR's.
> 
> lurk mode: OFF
> 
> I have quietly read this list for years and rarely post,
but I can't
> pass this one up.
> 
> Windows?  WINDOWS? We don' need no steenking Windows!
> 
> I use a windows machine at work because I HAVE to.
> I fly a Macintosh at home because I WANT to.  My
Powerbooks have been
> running OS-X for over three years and have NEVER frozen or
crashed.
> Not once.  Programs will crash now and then (generally
microsoft
> products,) but I have NEVER had to force restart a Mac
running OS-X.
> Never.
> 
> Most ham software runs very nicely via Virtual PC (a slick
emulation
> program that simulates a pentium and runs a legal copy of
Windows
> whatever simultaneously with the Mac OS).  I am waiting
for the day
> that the software folks dump the com ports and move into
the current
> century with firewire and USB 2.
> 
> 73 de KD9BO Steve
> 
> lurk mode: ON
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