"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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"dennis@home" wrote:
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If only Apple had allowed the clones to build Macs back in the 80s

yes we would still be stuck with an OS that didn't even do virtual
memory.
Windows did that for years before macOS.

No that's bull****. It would have been accurate had you said that Windows
had protected memory before MacOS.

Well that's not surprising.. it wasn't until the 68030 series came out that
there was a working MMU to run the protection and coincidently support
paging and VM.
That is true for Motorola CPUs as used by Apple.


Also it's convenient for Windows fan to
And Apple are control freaks, there wouldn't be anywhere near the
software applications there are now if Apple had control.

More bull****. One thing that marks Apple out from MS is that Apple
provide
a high level of support to developers and Apple give away development
tools
and even development environments such as Quartz.

M$ give away tools too. In fact they probably did it before apple.


A quick look at Apple's AppSore would show most people who are not
complete
****nuggets how well Apple supports developers.

Would that be like app store?
Yes you can have tools but just try publishing anything without apple's say
so.
ControlFreaks"R"us won't like it.


MS are closed source to the extent of not documenting APIs in order to
give
MS's own developers an advantage over third parties.

Rubbish.


Some may not like M$ but I doubt if the alternatives would have been
better.

I doubt if you have a brain. The key difference being that I'm right and
you are wrong.

I hate to tell you this but you are wrong again.