building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Jul 28 09:38:46 2001

Cameron Kaiser skrev:

>> UNIX is for masochists. I'll never get along with that system, it's so
>> unfriendly, it was perceived as unfriendly even back in the seventies. And
>> it will never conquer the desktop.

>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.

Personally, I think there's too much UNIX in OSX. They not only took the
kernel, but the entire environment as well.
Otherwise, (this wioll keep us within the ten-year rule), it reminds me of
MiNT/MultiTOS. Incompetent OS programmers who can't make a functioning, full-
featured system of their own just take a kernel off the rack and add some
glue. Granted, OSX is an entirely new system of its own whereas MiNT retained
TOS capability. But it's a tried and old concept.

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
We have support for the PMAGC-B's on pmax right? That is a PixelVision based
card right? I see Bt 463, that chip looks bigger than the 21164! Just looking
at it makes me want to write an Xserver!
   Chris Tribo, NetBSD/pmax
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