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From: Mitch
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: One Code to Rule Them All...
From: Mitch
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: One Code to Rule Them All...
In article
Koller
> Good article on the consolidation of MacOSX on computers, phones and the
> "Touch" iPods.
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881.
> htm
>
> Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but the article puts Windows'
> footprint at a bloated 1GB and the Mach (OSX) "KERNAL" at 1MB - apples
> and oranges, I understand, but there appears to be a modular advantage
> that Apple has on different versions of desktop-mobile hardware that
> Windows may not.
It has always seemed to me that Microsoft's attitude about efficiency
is to assume that if processing, RAM and storage gets cheaper, using it
less efficiently and demanding more of those is okay, even expected.
