Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Jorge Salvador Caffarena <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:36:04 +0200
No, NeXTSTEP never had any kind of hot-swap-users feature like that.
Of course, it would be much easier for Apple to implement this on Mac
OS X than it was for MicroSquish to do it on XP, I'll bet.
We would like to think so anyway... ;)
In reality the important thing is that they _have_ this wonderful
feature - and we don't.
Personally I think that this is a killer-app - if you can use that
terminology for a feature of an OS. It is a switch-over-feature.
Well I do not think it is a "killer-app" feature. I think it will be 95%
of the time useless, and it is just another marketing feature. It is on
its way of Microsoft lifestyle of having a computer in every place of
the house (did you see the screenshot showing a login window with the
computer name "Kitchen Computer"? funny thing indeed).
Imagine Dad is working with the PC with XP, he begin burning a CD. It is
going to take a while, so he thinks "hey lets use this wonderfull
feature of XP and let the kiddie play with my PC". So the kiddie logs,
he lurks around HL for example, dl a cool looking game disk image, and
begin to burn the game to the CD. I bet a Bluescreen Of Death may
happen :-). Or even better he begin playing a game, say Quake III, and
in the heart of the battle it eats up all the CPU, so daddy CD get a
buffer underrun.
Jorge Salvador Caffarena
http://homepage.mac.com/eevyl/