The age cut off is about 1985 for most of the
computers talked about on the
list from my view point. The only new computer I have seen that fits my
classic view-point of having a front-panel or not a consumer market
computer( read PeeCees) is the SBC1620.
This is exactly the problem with every *other* metric (other than Ray's) which
has been proposed so far -- everyone has their hard rule, but their own
"cool" exceptions. And "cool" is strictly in the eye of the beholder.
(nothing
personal, woodelf, the SBC1620 *is* a neat computer)
Ray's metric is easy to follow, easy to verify, and entirely insulated from a
subjective opinion of what constitutes cool (over which people will always be
wont to squabble). It also subsumes all the other metrics proposed as the
computers allowed under them also meet his metric, and while definitely it
widens the discussion a little bit, I don't think it does so unrealistically.
The objections seem to overwhelmingly be, "well, I don't want this list to
be a discussion of pissant PC issues." True, and anyone coming here trying to
get Win98 to run on a Core Duo might get some opposition. But we do get that
level of question here, just on more obscure systems. I find big iron
conceptually interesting, but not to the point of others, and I usually
delete mail about it after glancing at it. Some of those questions are at the
same technical level, but those of us who aren't into those systems certainly
aren't complaining about it. If someone has a 486DX2 they want to run QNX on,
why is this such a pain to have around?
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