[Am-info] What Steve Jobs WON'T do at Apple

[Mitch Stone]

On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 08:25 AM, Sujal Shah wrote:

> In other words, I think I'm ahead of the game with OS X.  I like Linux
> (and still run it on ALL my other machines).  The Mac just plays nicely
> with my other digital equipment (DV was the one thing I was going insane
> with on my Linux box)... I'm unlikely to get rid of it.  If I get truly
> bored, I might dual boot, but even that seems a remote possibility now.

You are a step ahead, if not two, as are the non-Unix aware people who are 
experiencing the Mac for the first time. Some of my long-time Mac using 
friends are a bit hamstrung. They seem somewhat disoriented, as was I, 
until I decided last month to jump in with both feet. So far I've 
discovered only a tiny corner of this "new" Unix world, but I've got the 
idea it will keep me happily exploring for years to come.

> I would suggest to you that you download darwin (the core of Mac OS X)
> and give it a whirl on any available hardware you have.  I think you'll
> be pretty satisfied with the performance you get... :-)  Right now, the
> slow bits seem to be Aqua/Quartz/et al...  Something I'm expecting to
> see improve over time.

The interface performance improvement between 10.0 and 10.1 was 
substantial; this can only continue, though maybe not at that rate. But 
the key to performance in OS X is RAM, RAM and more RAM.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com