> Linux Win95 WinNT MacOS
> Price free $89/$209 $190+ $99
> Stable excellent flaky excellent good
> configurability excellent fair good good
> powermanagement good good good excellent
> tech support excellent bad bad? good
> system size 20+ megs 100+ megs 100++ megs 100+ megs
Don't forget:
BeOS
Price $50 / free (to registered developers)
Stable good
configurability excellent
powermanagement bad-excellent (write it yourself)
tech support excellent
system size 40 megs, plus VM
Anyone care to hack it to run on PC/104? I'm sure it's a trivial port now
that the Intel release is out ;-)
> but these aren't the only criteria for many of us. There's also application
> base and document format compatibilty issues (note how each new MS Office
> release uses document formats that are incompatible with previous versions to
> gently nudge all of us to upgrade :^b ). Granted I'm currently laptop based &
> need to collaborate on documents with others in my office and in other
> companies.
Personally, I haven't found any apps outside of elm, vi, and some sort of
addressbook I'll want on my wearable, whenever I get around to making it.
Of course, this is the voice of inexperience...
> ==== ==== Ian M. Dew, Senior Software Engineer
Alex Feinman
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