[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dave Kimmel wrote:

> > > Yeah, true.  My main uses for Windows are web stuff, games, and PIC
> > > programming.  And ssh to the FreeBSD box that's five feet away.  Oh and
> > > anything graphical, mainly because my FreeBSD box is rather inadequate
> > > for that.
> >
> > Why not install FreeBSD on the current Windows box?
>
> I haven't thought of doing this in a while...  It might be worth a shot,
> but I've never been sold on the whole dual booting thing.

I wouldn't bother with dual booting.  I'd just install FreeBSD.

> > Blizzard has *always* supported Macs along with PC's.  Actually, they
> > started out supporting Macs and added PC's later.  The one who I am glad
> > has decided to recently start supporting Mac is Infogrames (the parent
> > company of Microprose/Hasbro Interactive).
>
> I thought it was the other way around?  I seem to remember StarCraft being
> PC first, Mac second.  Brood War (the StarCraft expansion) was both at the
> same time, IIRC.

That's not what I meant.  Even Diablo II came out for PC long before it
came out for Macs.  What I meant was that Blizzard made *only* Mac games
when they had first started up.

Peace...  Sridhar