OT: *nix OS

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:30:31AM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
thus spoke:
> Keep in mind that most of the hardware improvements available to the *nix
> community have come about because of the Windows operating system.  

How do you figure -this-?  Half the 'improvements' result in host-dependent
devices which require whole new drivers to be written by -someone- in the
Linux world so that they even work.

I would dispute your assertion.

> Also, most of the development of video boards, NICs and USB cards have
> been for Windows based computers with some of the manufacturers also
> supporting *nix.

Thus undermining your own point...

> The availability of SSDs has come about by the need for more storage
> space on smart phones and other devices which take pictures. Prices have
> dropped drastically while performance a quality have improves markedly.
> The newer M.2 SSD drives offer even better performance.  Running *nix
> and *nix based application on these type of drives offer even better
> performance improvements over Windows.  Larger HDDs is also an outgrowth
> of the space needed by Windows based applications as well as the size of
> photo files.

SSDs have nothing to do with Windows.  That's like thanking Boeing for
inventing draft.

> When I read reviews of these processors performance, the testing is
> normally done on a Windows based computer.  You all are taking advantage
> of manufactures improving their offerings to meet the requirements of
> Windows.

If by "taking advantage of" and "meet the requirements of" you mean "doing
something useful with the extra overhead freed up by not running a shite
OS", then sure, I agree with you.

Again, your evaluation falls short of realistic.  This is like taking the
engine from a ridiculously overweight armoured vehicle, slapping it into a
racing truck made of much lighter materials and getting -useful- speeds out
of it, and then thanking the people who built the 9mph tank.  It doesn't
make the 9mph tank -any- better at all at what it does.  It simply means
the racing truck was better designed.

> If memory serves, many of the *nix installations ran on Motorola
> processors.  I am going to assume that most if not all of the
> installations today are using Intel X86 type of multicore processors

That's probably a horrible assumption, if you count Android, which is based
on Linux.  If we count Android, it would not surprise me if ARM took the
majority market share.

Now, using your logic, Android should thank Apple because Apple has shown
just how badly something can be bloated and then one-upped, simply because
they did it less efficiently, first.

> Another question, when was the last time you had to set dip switches on
> a card being installed?  

About 1993, on a Pro Audio Spectrum sound card.  How is this remotely
attributable to Microsoft or Windows?  The move away from DIP switches
appears to have predated Windows.  Windows also had to have code written to
handle PnP.

> By the way, Microsoft has made installing and configuring Windows Server
> 2012 much simpler.  

Yes.  Now a McDonalds cash register clerk can also do it, instead of
requiring a McDonalds fry cook.  It was never rocket science.

Just how big a MS fanboy are you, Richard?  You're giving a staggering
amount of credit where credit is not due.  I have't seen this much rampant
fanboyism since the last time I wandered into an iPhone vs Android
'debate'.

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