[SunRescue] OT: FS: SGI Crimson RE

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Yes, but who can demand better than good enough when better than good
enough costs $3000 new?  I'm supposed to tell my friends that aren't very
good with computers to deal with ebay or to buy an unsupported machine?
What we need is someone to build a machine with more of a deskop
orientation without using Intel chips.  I'm thinking that Mips, PPC, or
StrongARM are the way to go.  

The OS should be some sort of unix varient buried deeply beneith a good
desktop (perhaps a yet to be programed version of GNOME), with a package
manager to sort out the installation difficulties (dselect is competent at
managing packages, but it's UI is intolerable), and redoing the whole /etc
system to allow for easy configuration from a configuration system (I mean
that each file should have a standard format so that one configuration
program can handle all the files, and all options should be listed in the
files, with explainations).

I think that a good university should be able to turn out such a
modification to OpenBSD or Linux in only a few years.  With either system
most of the work is already done

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Michaud wrote:

> "Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah well.  There also is a little thing called good enough.  An SGI is
> > great, but for many things a PC or Mac is good enough.  For instance, in
> > theory a Mac is good enough to do video editing, but the reality is that
> > it seems the only way to get a Mac to be stable enough is to buy a
> > Media100 or Avid station, at which point you loose a lot of the price
> > advantages of the Mac over an SGI.
> > 
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> 
> Reminds me of that commercial for some investment company... something
> along the lines of "if we accept things as 'good enough,' will things
> ever be 'good enough?'
> 
> -Dave
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