[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[Tommy]

Hmmmm...where can I get some Apple software that will run 385 servers spread
across the country...that will NOT fail? What COM ports? Only reason we need
COM ports now is to run ham software. OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro on
my three home made PC's also for three years with NO crashes. By the way,
did you build your MAC?

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Weber" <kd9bo at mac.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 6:39 PM
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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