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Originally posted by LxMustangRacer
Chris, I don't hate macs but I do find windows to make just as much sense as mac os x. It may be because I've been using it for so long. You're example about the hard drive being called a hard drive makes some sense, but what happens when you have multiple hard drives. I have 8 partitions of 20 gigs a piece on my computer, would they all be called hard drive? And how do you get access to the partitions in whatever dos based equivalent macs have?(I still love using dos).
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my Mac has an 80 gig hd, and a 30 gig hd. The 30 has two partitions. I have Mac OS 9.2 running on one partition, ond Mac OS X 10.1 on the other. On the 80, i am running the newest version of OS X; 10.2, codenamed Jaguar. I named them Monster HD (80), Little mac 9 (OS 9 partition), and Little Mac X (OS X 10.1 partition). In the screenshot below, you can see all three as icons on the right side of the screen. That's how they are named and identified. All three run at the same time if I wish, with no noticible slow down. That way I can switch between software programs that are OS specific just like they were all running in the same OS. Very cool, IMO.
DOS. LOL. I will never forget how scared I was the night before I took my DOS 6.22 final exam in my PC repair and networking class! I couldn't sleep! 6 months later after passing my A+ certification exam, I walked by the "DOS tables" in the classroom, and just started laughing at the new students that were freaking out. I wasn't laughing at them, so to speak, but at how they were acting exactly as I had been, and I had come so far since then that DOS seemed like "Pong" probably does to someone with Playstation.
Anyway, if it is a window into which you can type your code-specific commands that you enjoy, Mac has what's called "Terminal", which gives you root access into the Unix base of the OS. It doesn't do much for me, as I am much more into a GUI than typed commands, but I am told that Terminal is a true computer geeks best friend. Something about Unix being the "
real schit" when it comes to programming and such.
Take care,
~Chris