re is ms windows a mature os in article cyen ponder jesse writes hi have you used mac system x or x if the answer is positive you would know if ms windows is a mature os days ago people doubted that ms windows is not a real os i can see why they have such question ms windows confuses many people microsoft common complaints about ms windows deleted jesse e mail cyen cs unt edu ic sol acs unt edu hmmmm why do i get the feeling that this is gonna start one of those endless threads mac vs win and might even end up as os vs win well i dont know if windows is a mature os if i have seen one in which case that has to be x windows but dont be so quick to judge first of all to try to use plain vanilla windows is as courageous as to try to use plain vanilla dos there are lots of very nice commercial and shareware packages utilities that will boost up windows past what ms itself thought possible for example norton desktop for windows a replace ment for progman will give you group within a group capability and will even change group icons it will launch progs by association well fileman does that too or by dragging the file in the apps icon now mac doesnt do that huh and the list goes on and on now windows is kinda hard to finetune boost and configure but thats trhe price to pay for not paying to get a mac or an os capable machine an entirely differet story on the other hand if you dont like the idea of pm s icons not correspnding to the files themselves well they are not supposed to pm is a program launching utility not a file manager modify your settings to have fm as your shell and not pm or get a couple of utilities from cica that supposedly give you a mac feel i dont wanna get in the discussion which is a better system mac s are good in their own way they are different not better or worse than win pcs actually i am writing this from a mac lab as a user assistant so dont think i am partial to win by all means check out the stuff in cica ftp to ftp cica indiana edu under the pub pc win subdir user anonymous or wait for startrek mac s os on a pc the threads we are gonna have then just trying to avoid another mac win war costas malamas georgia institute of technology oit ua opinions expressed are not necessarily oit s internet ccastco prism gatech edu
