Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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This article is written very well.
I run BeOS (and W2K) on my P4 and know its advantages and drawbacks. I have run Mac OS X since last March (all versions up to 10.1) and like it. However, it is still incomplete. I think Mac OS X will be my main OS in 2003 or so, on a really fast G5 or G6 machine, and I hope Mac OS X will then have Quartz rendering done by the graphics cards.
Since when I have added more RAM, giving my Mac 672 MBytes of physical RAM (to be able to run Mac OS X without any page-outs), I enjoy running Mac OS 9.1 more than ever: Not a single OS crash or freeze within one week of virtually constant use. I have used ResEdit to increase RAM allocation by modifying the SIZE resources of all system components (extensions, control panels and faceless background programmes), and all application programmes as well in the Finder. Obviously, this generous RAM allocation prevents software from violating memory-space boundaries in RAM, making a memory-protection scheme like in BeOS, W2K or Mac OS X unnecessary. Mac OS 9.1 is now so fast and crash-free that there is no need to run Mac OS X on my Mac which doesn't support my printer, my graphics card, CD-R toasting on my SCSI burner and numerous other functions I'm used to having available under Mac OS 9.1.