Johhny2Bad: The facts: currently hardware is being designed around software when software should be designed around hardware hence the illusion that the OS is boss, but thats half the problem because what we actually have is many manufacturers of hardware AND software hence incompatibility issues which leads to crashing/freezing systems, to solve the problem of incompatibility we have to limit ourselves to one hardware manufacturer and as many OS platforms as u like or vice versa (one OS manufacturer and as many hardware manufacturers as u like) hence the battle for dominance.

This is true and rarely if ever considered by the average computer user. Back in the days before the Windows PC, computers were very hardware specific and the operating system was specific to the chip… A z80 computer used a different disk operating system than an 8080 or an 8085. Commodore 64’s used an OS from Commodore which would work as well on my Commodore 64 as yours because the hardware and software came from the same place.

I think this is something that Apple has considers with their hardware/software products although there are casualties along the way when various hardware pieces become outdated because the OS requires something that is only supported in the new hardware. Mac OS worked up to OS9 with their Power PC G3/G4 products but G3’s ran slow and spotty on anything greater than OS8. The latest OSX is spec’d to work with G4 & G5 computers but to get the most out of it, you better have a dual core Intel system with a whack load of ram. In this way, Apple can ensure that the hardware & software have less trouble than if their OS ran on some generic hardware. That said, I’d still like to hack OSX and run it on my Toshiba Laptop :)

Sorry for going so way off topic but I thought that was an interesting point.

They didn’t want to engage with you because you’re incapable of having a discussion without being rude, condescending, calling people with differing opinions stupid, fabricating “facts” on the fly, etc… I mean to spin that you purposely left out 4 bits as bait. That’s just weak.

So, when you find that people don’t respond to your posts you might think that you’re clever however, it probably means that they have better things to do and just don’t want to invest.

Peace out!