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Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

Ruud Dingemans <rtech@home.nl> writes:

> If it had the power of POWER4 or NEC's new supercomputer in a personal
> computer enclosure, THEN it'd be different indeed. But it's not, and
> given Lisa, that's a slight disappointment - from Apple, we've come to
> expect more than just elegant design (imho). The Mac is no longer
> leading technologically, whereas Lisa once did.

        The Lisa is no longer cutting edge, either. It may have been
at some point; but even that is debatable - it may equally well be
considered just a refinement of various ideas originating at Xerox and
elsewhere.

        If you say that the Lisa was leading technology because it was
ahead of what was commonly available otherwise, you should also accept
that the G3 and G4 processors were leading technology at the time of
their introduction.

> > Your point that a Mac is not really a Mac anymore is good- it's not a 680XX
> > processor, and as you say it's a Unix-based OS.  That's evolution.
> 
> True, although you could argue that using an OS from 1969 and then
> making it into bloatware - which OS X is, unfortunately, I've run A/UX
> Unix on an 8 MB SE/30 so I know it can be done *differently* - isn't
> exactly cutting edge *software* either  ;)

        Oh, *please*. I've been using various versions of Unix
professionally for the last 12 years, and MacOSX is in some ways a
definite improvement. GUI-wise, it's even leading edge (when compared
to *all* other Unices - some people may prefer the GUI experience of
"Classic" MacOS, but MacOSX has other improvements under the hood.)

        You may consider MacOSX to be bloatware compared to A/UX, but
I think you'd have trouble finding someone who would actually want to
work with A/UX on an 8MB SE/30 compared with MacOSX on a G3/G4 box.

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