[rescue] WTB: sbus 10mbit ethernet NIC & 20A power cable

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jul 5 15:05:35 CDT 2002


On July 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   BeOS.  *sigh*  The typical suit mentality, shades of NeXT.  "Hey
> > team players, let's touch base on this.  We have great hardware and
> > mediocre software.  Let's synergize with the corporate paradigm and
> > move forward by discontinuing our great hardware and porting our
> > mediocre software to PeeCees!"   *bzzt*, another failed company.
> 
> Depending on which generation you are talking about, I was under the
> impression that the hardware was pretty mediocre (compared to other
> real hardware, not when compared to PCs), but I really loved the OS.
> Especially the file system.

  I ran an early release (I don't recall which one) on a PowerMac a few
years ago.  I was not impressed.  A good filesystem does not an
operating system make.

      -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
St. Petersburg, FL              your .emacs file is incomplete." -Joshua Boyd



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