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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<p>I'm sorry if you had problems with your SMP hardware and Linux. In general
it does work (and well!) in my experience.
<p>Wrt. threads - i personally think the unix way of making processes cheap
and bountiful is better and more scalable (no need for manually
and painstakingly implementing fine grained locking in order to get apps
to run on many cpus).