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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts) Thu Apr 28, 2011, 03:41 PM Apr 2011

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What's Mac got that Windows 98 ain't got?

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What's Mac got that Windows 98 ain't got? (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2011 OP

Mac software? sellitman Apr 2011 #1

Cheese? I never heard of Windows 98 and Cheese struggle4progress May 2011 #2

tastes lousy. Also too much of it and you end up on a blue screen of death ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #8

Reliability ccinamon May 2011 #3

A real operating system? RoccoR5955 Dec 2011 #4

Amen! LOL! n/t Mimosa Dec 2011 #6

products that work.... erinlough Dec 2011 #5

A pulse. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #7

What's a new Mercedes S-Class got that a Ford Pinto ain't got? DissedByBush Dec 2011 #9

sellitman

(11,748 posts)

1. Mac software?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2011, 03:41 PM

Apr 2011

How about the best operating system around?

struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)

2. Cheese? I never heard of Windows 98 and Cheese

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 17, 2011, 03:09 PM

May 2011

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

8. tastes lousy. Also too much of it and you end up on a blue screen of death

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 03:46 PM

Dec 2011

during your autopsy.

ccinamon

(1,696 posts)

3. Reliability

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu May 19, 2011, 03:28 PM

May 2011

and ease of use....and no BlueScreenOfDeath!!!

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)

4. A real operating system?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2011, 06:06 PM

Dec 2011

That doesn't need to be restarted every couple of hours, because it can't handle the threads/processes.

Mimosa

(9,131 posts)

6. Amen! LOL! n/t

Reply to RoccoR5955 (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 7, 2011, 06:15 PM

Dec 2011

erinlough

(2,176 posts)

5. products that work....

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2011, 06:20 PM

Dec 2011

right out of the box and just as they are advertised.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

7. A pulse.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:28 PM

Dec 2011

DissedByBush

(3,342 posts)

9. What's a new Mercedes S-Class got that a Ford Pinto ain't got?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 11:22 AM

Dec 2011

It's kind of like that question.

I'm even fairly new to Macs, not a long-time fan. For years I've been a professional Windows developer, and have admined hundreds of Windows servers in an enterprise environment.

Of course the question has a time factor to it. At the time of Windows 98 it had some technological advances that MacOS of the time didn't have, like preemptive multitasking and protected memory.

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