> As for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts. Just a simple, elegant life: “Your application has unexpectedly quit due to error number –1. OK?”
I wonder how that worked out for Don Norman (Apple Fellow and preface author)?
(Written from my wonderful MBP, which is happily, a Unix)
Apparently those random crashes were often caused by hardware memory corruption. I remember one manual basically said something like "if this error happens, don't worry about it, it probably won't happen much". And then you would see it for the third time that day.
I wonder how that worked out for Don Norman (Apple Fellow and preface author)?
(Written from my wonderful MBP, which is happily, a Unix)