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  • Apple Makes Microsoft Look Good

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Jul 30 22:45:51 2026
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    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything that
    good.

    Imagine that: MicrosoftrCOs platform having a useful feature that
    ApplerCOs supposed rCLUnixrCY system lacks ...

    What next? Is Windows Terminal better than ApplerCOs standard terminal
    app?
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Jul 30 19:05:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 7/30/2026 6:45 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything that
    good.

    Imagine that: MicrosoftrCOs platform having a useful feature that
    ApplerCOs supposed rCLUnixrCY system lacks ...

    What next? Is Windows Terminal better than ApplerCOs standard terminal
    app?


    The amusing thing is that Process Explorer is far better for Windows,
    anyway.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Jul 30 23:11:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    At Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:05:11 -0400, "Joel W. Crump"
    <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/30/2026 6:45 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything
    that good.

    Imagine that: MicrosoftrCOs platform having a useful feature that
    ApplerCOs supposed rCLUnixrCY system lacks ...

    What next? Is Windows Terminal better than ApplerCOs standard terminal
    app?


    The amusing thing is that Process Explorer is far better for Windows, anyway.

    Yeah, written (iirc) by Russinovich, who once wrote in NT
    magazine that Linux didn't have "true threads", _after_
    clone(2) was in the kernel. Yes, I know: "shock and horror!"

    At the time, though I got a little hot under the collar about
    it. (I used to be a bit of a Linux evangelical hothead back then...)

    (If the LKML archives go back that far, you'll see it.)
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Jul 30 19:30:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 7/30/2026 7:11 PM, vallor wrote:
    At Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:05:11 -0400, "Joel W. Crump"
    <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/30/2026 6:45 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS
    <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything
    that good.

    Imagine that: MicrosoftrCOs platform having a useful feature that
    ApplerCOs supposed rCLUnixrCY system lacks ...

    What next? Is Windows Terminal better than ApplerCOs standard terminal
    app?

    The amusing thing is that Process Explorer is far better for Windows,
    anyway.

    Yeah, written (iirc) by Russinovich, who once wrote in NT
    magazine that Linux didn't have "true threads", _after_
    clone(2) was in the kernel. Yes, I know: "shock and horror!"

    At the time, though I got a little hot under the collar about
    it. (I used to be a bit of a Linux evangelical hothead back then...)

    (If the LKML archives go back that far, you'll see it.)


    Mark Russinovich is a marvelous guy.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From Nick Charles@none@none.none to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Jul 31 00:19:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Jul 30, 2026 at 6:45:51rC>PM EDT, "Lawrence D-|Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything that
    good.

    You clearly have never seen either.

    Activity Monitor does everything task Manager does and MUCH more. You can see - in real time - what ports and are in use and what files are open for every process in Activity Monitor. You can - of course - kill any process. You can see all kernel calls and all Unix system calls for each process.

    MacOS IS Unix. In fact, it is the most popular version of Unix in the entire 50+ year history of Unix. Currently running on over 2 billion (and growing) computers. Macs, iPhones and iPads.

    Grow up and accept facts.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Jul 31 02:22:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:19:59 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    On Jul 30, 2026 at 6:45:51rC>PM EDT, "Lawrence D-|Oliveiro"
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS
    <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything
    that good.

    You clearly have never seen either.

    Activity Monitor does everything task Manager does and MUCH more.

    Hey, donrCOt tell me, try explaining it to Dave Plummer. Maybe he knows something (about both MicrosoftrCOs and ApplerCOs platforms) you donrCOt?

    MacOS IS Unix.

    Guess what the kernel is called: rCLXNUrCY.

    Guess what rCLXNUrCY stands for: rCLXNUrCOs Not UnixrCY.
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Jul 31 15:45:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2026-07-30 19:22, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:19:59 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    On Jul 30, 2026 at 6:45:51rC>PM EDT, "Lawrence D-|Oliveiro"
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Dave Plummer is porting the Windows Task Manager to Apple NacOS
    <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/legendary-windows-developer-codes-task-manager-for-the-mac-says-he-was-inspired-by-the-fact-that-apples-activity-monitor-blows>.
    Why? Because the Apple platform doesnrCOt currently have anything
    that good.

    You clearly have never seen either.

    Activity Monitor does everything task Manager does and MUCH more.

    Hey, donrCOt tell me, try explaining it to Dave Plummer. Maybe he knows something (about both MicrosoftrCOs and ApplerCOs platforms) you donrCOt?

    Did Dave Plummer come here and write about a topic he doesn't understand?


    MacOS IS Unix.

    Guess what the kernel is called: rCLXNUrCY.

    Guess what rCLXNUrCY stands for: rCLXNUrCOs Not UnixrCY.

    Becasue Unix is MORE THAN A KERNEL.

    macOS remains a certified Unix operating system.

    <https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3725.htm>

    But maybe you know something more than they do, huh?


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