[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[Tommy]

Don't stop...since we can't talk about the Orion firmware on the Ten Tec
reflector...we can bash computers!

Yep, it was Gates who once said that...I think that was way before  there
was an orange..er..an apple...

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Mahaffey" <w6eet at cox.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 7:12 PM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Basic question - Long



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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