I like OSes.
I like how they work and what they do...
But modern OSes don't have much thrill for me anymore..
Don't get me wrong, I work with them, a lot.
Some smaller ones, mostly larger ones.
But I've been doing more architecture recently. (and that doesn't bother me as much as it used to.. ;-)
But at home, I find I no longer need/want to play with the newest Windows/MacOS/Linux variant..
I have more fun with AmigaOS now than I have with any of the others.
I think it's because I think it was the most elegant OS.. (IMHO)
When it came to a NOS, I liked a lot of them, but I appreciated Netware NCP... It wasn't always the best at particular things, and others have caught up in a lot of ways, but it was elegant...
When it came to network technologies, I liked a lot of them, but I appreciated Token-Ring. Again, elegant. It had a logic on the wire.. Collisions? Pffft.. Where's the elegance..
Didn't stop me from recommending a move to Microsoft and Ethernet at work...
I'm a realist too, that's why they have me working on architecture.. ;-)
Same with the AmigaOS..
I like a lot of OSes.. I use a lot of OSes.. But there's something elegant about the Amiga OS, and that still has hold of me to this day...
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(And don't think I haven't thought about hooking up my Amiga to a token-ring network to pull files from a Netware server.. But, I'm a realist too.. :-) :-)
