mac / pc / linux ?

[altbier]

Originally Posted by CobraSkip

I hate to be so picky, but, you didn't ask the right question. Mac and PC are computer architectures and linux and unix are operating systems which run on the architectures. I own a Mac and run OS X, Windows 2000, and Unix on the machine. BTW, OS X is written in Unix. I'm suprised some of the software winnies that responded to this question didn't seem to know the difference.

I run os x and osx server, stupid question, how are you running windows on your mac? are you using one of the softwares that do this? I never had good luck with them in os9

cheers!

[rumballs]

Originally Posted by CobraSkip

I hate to be so picky, but, you didn't ask the right question. Mac and PC are computer architectures and linux and unix are operating systems which run on the architectures. I own a Mac and run OS X, Windows 2000, and Unix on the machine. BTW, OS X is written in Unix. I'm suprised some of the software winnies that responded to this question didn't seem to know the difference.

Nice that you're trying to draw the distinction between an architecture and an OS, but you're not doing it properly...
The motorola chipset is an architecture, which happens to run Mac OS 9 and X. Intel chipset is an architecture, which historically has run Windows OS's (and linux), but will soon run Mac OS X also (well, already does on the dev/test boxes). AMD is another architectre which most often runs a Windows OS.
"PC" is not an architecture.

OS X is not "written in Unix". It's written probably largely in C, with some assembly and maybe some C++. OS X is however essentially a unix operating system - has a lot of the same structures, APIs, etc.

[CobraSkip]

Originally Posted by altbier

I run os x and osx server, stupid question, how are you running windows on your mac? are you using one of the softwares that do this? I never had good luck with them in os9

cheers!

A product called Virtual PC. It's a Gates product but if you have a big Mac it works pretty well.

[CobraSkip]

Originally Posted by mmblz

Nice that you're trying to draw the distinction between an architecture and an OS, but you're not doing it properly...
The motorola chipset is an architecture, which happens to run Mac OS 9 and X. Intel chipset is an architecture, which historically has run Windows OS's (and linux), but will soon run Mac OS X also (well, already does on the dev/test boxes). AMD is another architectre which most often runs a Windows OS.
"PC" is not an architecture.

OS X is not "written in Unix". It's written probably largely in C, with some assembly and maybe some C++. OS X is however essentially a unix operating system - has a lot of the same structures, APIs, etc.

You're right, I quibbled about the distinction between and architecture and an OS and than blew the distinction between an OS and an implementation language. Unix is an OS, an OS is implemented in a (some) language (usually C or C++ these days). OS X is basically a graphical interface. The distinctions between architectures, assembly languages, compiler languages, operatiing systems, GUIs, etc. is becoming blurry in my old age.

[rumballs]

Originally Posted by CobraSkip

A product called Virtual PC. It's a Gates product but if you have a big Mac it works pretty well.

Shame that MS bought it - it used to be a different company until 1.5 years ago or so...

[Hammerhead]

I think the intent of the question was clearly stated, and could be interpreted as: What OS do you use the most when you'd be smoking cigars?, or What OS would you buy a cigar database software product for? Given that the aim of the question is to address what development targets the cigar database is to have, the intent was to determine whether or not coding for a MacOS was a viable effort.

Context, please, guys. Let's read the whole question and answer it in the spirit in which it was intended.

[Hunter]

PC, Win 98 SE, (Thunderbird & Firefox for e-mail and surfing... no more pop-ups with the fox.)

[whodat1]

Windoze & Linux at home, Unix(Sun), Linux, Windoze, VX works & proprietary systems at work. Its all good.

[Dogwatch Dale]

PC & Linux here.