building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sat Jul 28 01:07:23 2001

>> MacOS X. I'm a believer. First Unix that manages to avoid looking like Unix
>> (except if you want it to). I've never seen an X windows manager that did
>> any good other than making the Unix metaphor just pretty, not less
>>complicated.
>> OS X, on the other hand, does an excellent job at hiding it away from the
>> casual user, but not making it ridiculously difficult for people to get
>> their hands dirty if they want.
>
>You forgot A/UX.

That's where I first touched both UNIX and a Macintosh, trust me, it's best
forgotten. Once that WIS Workstation was loaded with MacOS 7, it flew!
Before that it was a dog, despite being based around a Mac IIfx.

                        Zane
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