Comment Re:Better design (Score 1) 343
>> I wasn't aware that OS X was being distributed with a Shell...I was told that it must be installed seprately...anyhow, OS X as you said is BSD. And the fact that the Amiga was "unix like" rather than UNIX didn't hurt it for all of those Amiga users.
Yes. It is. It even comes with emacs and a bunch of other unix tools from bsd and elsewhere. Standard.
It also comes with the complete developers tools including the ide, cocoa, java 2 built into the os and java developers tools, as well as the usual support for C, C++, Objective-C and others. THOSE need to be installed if you want them (the cd comes with every mac, and every os x retail copy). I wish CBM did that back in the day.
>> Lets not compare it with the A500, compare it with an A1200. The A1200-HD could be had for well under the origonal price of the A500, and came with a harddrive. I think I bought my A1200-HD for $599 in '92, and you can't compare the price of a monitor (monitors get cheaper as time goes by). Compare it to what was available at the time...
Well... The A500 was also $599. in both cases, WITH a monitor, it would be around what the 17inch g4 is now.... in current dollars. I also didn't mention hard drives. Obviously the g4 mac comes with one as well!!! My point is that a complete set up, is about $1100, whether it was an A500 in 1989, an A1200 in 1992, or the g4 eMac today.
Yes. It is. It even comes with emacs and a bunch of other unix tools from bsd and elsewhere. Standard.
It also comes with the complete developers tools including the ide, cocoa, java 2 built into the os and java developers tools, as well as the usual support for C, C++, Objective-C and others. THOSE need to be installed if you want them (the cd comes with every mac, and every os x retail copy). I wish CBM did that back in the day.
>> Lets not compare it with the A500, compare it with an A1200. The A1200-HD could be had for well under the origonal price of the A500, and came with a harddrive. I think I bought my A1200-HD for $599 in '92, and you can't compare the price of a monitor (monitors get cheaper as time goes by). Compare it to what was available at the time...
Well... The A500 was also $599. in both cases, WITH a monitor, it would be around what the 17inch g4 is now.... in current dollars. I also didn't mention hard drives. Obviously the g4 mac comes with one as well!!! My point is that a complete set up, is about $1100, whether it was an A500 in 1989, an A1200 in 1992, or the g4 eMac today.
