On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2012-11-27 13:41 Bruce Walker wrote >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> on 2012-11-27 13:10 Bruce Walker wrote >>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> there are no touch-screen Macs >>>> >>>> Besides iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. >>> >>> those are Apple products, but they aren't Macs >> >> But they run something awfully darned close to Mac OS X. I know, they >> aren't "Mac platforms" like the iMac and Macbooks, etc. > > much of Apple's success has come from repurposing mature technologies; we > don't call OS X NeXTSTEP …
I still have a brand new in the box, shrink-wrap-intact copy of OpenStep 4.2. I keep intending to boot it up under VMware so I can run some old Lighthouse apps I have. :-) I admin'ed a large network of NeXT pizza boxes, OpenStep PCs (also on HPs and Sparcs) and Macs back in the nineties. I was a big fan of NetInfo, especially from the command line. > i agree wrt OS X, but i like iOS pretty well; if OS X continues it's current > direction (not touchscreen so much as making the environment more > appliance-like), i may want something different fairly soon Ditto. >> And if both Apple and Mickeysoft are going to foist this stuff on us >> there'll be nowhere else to turn. For sure, the Linux crowd will >> follow suit. > > i understand Richard Stallman is extremely productive doing almost all his > work in plain text with GNU Emacs I sympathize. When I code, it's still with vi/vim in a terminal emulator. You can't beat regex substitutions for productivity when hacking many big chunks of code. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
