6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
4:58 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
<flamebait>
I also have this perverse fascination with Macintosh hardware. I
don't like it. I keep wanting to like it, and accumulating
more of it.
MacOS 9.1 is the second poorest excuse for an OS I've ever seen.
Windows ME was just barely worse.
</flamebait>
Macintosh hardware is much harder to appreciate than most of the
more industrial machines. It becomes especially hard when you
see the things that Macintosh could have been (Lisa, NeXT) :)
It is, however, a cut above the intel garbage that has the
market saturated, and for that reason, I like it. There are
also some interesting bits of Macintosh hardware that most people
don't see...
http://www.lunar.com/portfolio/client_archive/netserver.html
(They also have a newer "workgroup server," which I hear is similar,
but with a glowing green apple on the side. :)
I'd like to have a non-Mac 68k workstation, but
I don't know which
yet.
May I suggest the SGI IRIS 3000, if you can find one, and have the
space. I can't, and I don't, but if I could, I would. ;)
Otherwise, the NeXT platform is truly the "holy grail" of unix
workstations.
This post is, of course, heavily saturated with personal opinion. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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