[geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life

[Tom Borton]

Likewise.  I worked in a lab in '92-'93 with SS2's attached to robots
and one IIfx that ended up being such a dead in terms of expansion and
compatibility that it was completely ignored.  I fell in love with the
Sun hardware (despite the fact that I've spent most of my career writing
x86 code) and loathed the Macs until the PowerMac (grudging respect) and
the Quadras (ditto) followed by love for the G4s, although I don't have
money for one.

And on the Apple II front, I still have an Apple IIgs in my basement.  A
bare-bones monochrome system with dual floppies only a geek would
keep...

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Eric Dittman
Sent: 28 February 2002 14:07
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life


> Whoah there?  "Umpteen years of bad macs?"  Since when?  There have
been
> several crap macs (just like sun, they tend to go off and do weird
things
> once in a while), but there were some really good milestones:
>... 
> -Mac IIfx: 40MHz CPU/Bus in 1990...
>...

The Mac IIfx was what killed Apple for me.  The platform was
nice, but Apple lied about the SCSI in the IIfx being the
fastest available.  The IIci SCSI was much faster.  They also
never properly supported the serial ports, and the RAM used
in the IIfx was supposed to be the RAM used in the follow-ons,
but Apple instead changed.  They also promised the follow-on
would be a IIfx-style chassis so the IIfx would be upgradeable
to the newer systems.  Instead, Apple went completely different,
making the IIfx an evolutionary dead-end and waste of money.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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