Quothe Alex White, from writings of Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:52:58PM +0100: My computer is more PERQish than yours, and hence more hackish. It's small enough to be called a personal computer and fit underneath a desk; it's big enough that most people wouldn't want to attempt to put it on a desk, although using one as a desktop computer would mean less space for less interesting things on one's desk; it's heavy enough that one wouldn't want to hear someone say "here, catch!"; it dissipates enough heat to heat a room, with that heat dissipated by several fans; it's microprogrammable; it runs various operating systems, both single and multi-user; it makes the Apple Lisa look like a boring child's toy; it has the power of an minicomputer; raster-op graphics for fast and smooth animation; it's been know to shoot sparks ultimate in artificial intelligence; engineered to the limits of the timing capabilities of its chips; it's a PERQ. I dare anyone without a classic PERQ workstation to attempt one-up this one! ;-) -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

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Quothe Peter C. Wallace, from writings of Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:32:59PM -0700: [quoting Tony Duell] I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that Tony was most likely talking about the beauty of the engineering of the actual circuitry, how the CPU (not a board containing a microprocessor, but a board filled with the circuitry that makes up a CPU from many different ICs - a true CPU board) was designed, as opposed to the superficial aspect of a circuit board's appearance. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

"Peter C. Wallace" wrote: Too bad all the real nice machines , never made it to the general public. -- Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu * www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html

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