The bottom line
is this: do you really want to trudge through a bunch of
boring discussions about PCs and Windows?
I certainly do not.
It depends. I find Sgi VW320/540 workstations worthy of discussion as well as the
Intergraph NT based systems. How about a Raptor-3. NT based, but hardly your
father's Dell. I'm interested in Sgi's, NeXT, Sun's, Mac's and older
DOS machines. I wade through lots of posts about DEC's and other big iron that I
never read because that's not my thing.
Personally I've always considered there to be a "Coolness" clause to the
10-year rule. Which covers stuff like SGI's, NeXT (I guess they're all finally on
topic now), and even really cool PC hardware (the SGI VW320/540's would probably fall
under this clause).
As most probably know, my area of interest has pretty much solidified on DEC Hardware and
software. I basically use DEC HW/SW and a Mac at home, but I'm still interested in
"Cool" computers (which accounts for the 270Mhz R12000 based SGI o2 sitting here
next to my monitor).
Currently the main PC hardware that counts as "Cool" in my book are the VIA EPIA
Mini-ITX boards, which are *definitely* off topic, but cool becuase of what you can do
with them. I personally want to get one to build a very low power PDP-10, I'd run a
stripped down Linux and use KLH10 to run TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 on it.
I really don't want to trudge through a bunch of PC and Windows discussions here, but
I've got to admit that if I ever find the time to setup a DOS box like I've been
wanting to, I'll probably have a few questions (it's been over 10 years since I
really did anything with DOS), and I'll probably ask them here.
Zane
--
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
|
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
