[Coco] For the love of an OS.

[Steve Bjork]

In front of me, I have Mac, PC (window 7 pro 64-bit) and iOS iPad2.  In 
back office the are More Macs, PC windows and Linux systems too.  They 
all get along together!  Each computer or device it running OS that's 
the best for it.

I got an number of micro-controllers that use Windows.  For music and 
graphics I use both windows and the Mac.  If I need to run a server or 
NAS than I would most likely drop a Linux kernel on it.

But this is the way I've looked at computers for the past 30 years.  
Even back in the early CoCo days, I used other computers to help create 
my CoCo programs.  Whatever computer that was best (for me) at the task, 
that's the one I would pick.

Trying to use a poor virtual system is a kluge.  (and not worth the 
headaches)  Don't get me wrong, there are good virtual systems out 
there.  (Most are a bit pricey.)  Sometimes it's better to just use the 
real thing.

You may say the real thing is too costly.  Well that's the real test! 
Does the need justify the cost?

I should disclose that I'm in the Windows camp and not so much a Mac 
user. But most of my coding time is spent work on a Mac.  But use the OS 
that gets the job done.   I do have other pet projects (on other OS) 
that I work to get the taste of Steve Job's nEXT OS out of my mouth. 
(Objective C, yuk!)  Even a little Perl coding can clean the palette.

Bottom line, don't kludge.  Just build the real thing.   Or duel boot 
the computer.  I feel better about the number of macs I own since they 
all run Windows just fine via Bootcamp.

Steve

On 5/2/2011 7:50 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> While virtualbox and vmware work they're at best a kludge. I use virtualbox for the
> handful of apps that I need and will only run under windows. Fortunately there are only a
> small handfull. Even wine is a kludge. A native linux app is best and the only ones I'm
> interested in paying money for.