29 Nov
2001
29 Nov
'01
8:31 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tapley [mailto:mtapley@swri.edu]
Hans asked:
>List the 20 to 30 systems you would display and
briefly explain the
>reason for choosing each.
Fun question. Don't have time to really organize,
but here's
parts of my list:
[snip]
A few good ones you didn't mention:
Starbridge sytems HAL
A new production system that's completely FPGA based, and sports some pretty
impressive performance numbers.
Strictly speaking off-topic since it's a new machine...
SGI Iris 2000
Likely the first serious (depending on your definition of the word)
graphical workstation
Amiga (any)
Aside from being the epitome of desktop computing, it's the only system I
know that's survived <how many?> buy-outs
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
29 Nov
29 Nov
10:24 a.m.
Hi all,
you should also include a Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48K. This was the most
sold home computer in Europe during the eighties, much more sold than
the Commodore 64 (which had a factory in Germany). This small computer
(Speccy as we name it) helped the spread of computing knowledge among
thousands of people. Many of current european IT professionals started
with it. I think it did a very important role in the recent history of
computing in Europe. I know that in the USA things went a different way.
regards,
Pedro
Christopher Smith wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tapley [mailto:mtapley@swri.edu]
Hans asked:
>List the 20 to 30 systems you would display
and briefly explain the
>reason for choosing each.
Fun question. Don't have time to really
organize, but here's
parts of my list:
[snip]
A few good ones you didn't mention:
Starbridge sytems HAL
A new production system that's completely FPGA based, and sports some pretty
impressive performance numbers.
Strictly speaking off-topic since it's a new machine...
SGI Iris 2000
Likely the first serious (depending on your definition of the word)
graphical workstation
Amiga (any)
Aside from being the epitome of desktop computing, it's the only system I
know that's survived <how many?> buy-outs
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
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