Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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"I don't want to sound like a troll ... but I'm confused by your comment. Are you implying that Java doesn't run well on Windows, *nix, *bsd?"
I think because Apple is the only computer developer that makes their own hardware, operating system and java machine. If we don't think to Sun, sure! Anyway, Sun doesn't make portable computers. :-)
Apple ported Sun's VM over to OS X and added some nice features like VM sharing and Swing intergration into the OS. So Java apps on OS X look exactly like native apps, which is nice.
On the other hand, the Apple VM does have problems of its own and since its Apple maintaining it, bug fixes tend to be slower than that of Sun. The performance of the VM isn't much to shout about either. Apple only ships the client VM which is much slower than the server VM on certain tasks.
Apple's Java VMs are also lagging behind Sun's VMs by about a year. Java 1.5 is about to be released. It'll take quite some time (unless things have changed at Apple) before the latest version of Java gets shipped.