In comp.lang.java.programmer Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting > at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M), > running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts. > > And a mean game of tetris it played too. Chess wasn't worth the > humiliation at level 5. > > I believe every researcher in britain got one as a matter of course, but > they only replaced the perq machines that everyone had had to put up > with before then. The vaxen running hpux or so were plentiful too, and > had fine monitors, tending more to the PC shape. We'd made our own word > processor machines and spreadsheet automatons before that. It didn't > take that many components, just a good engineer and a room full of > lackeys with soddering irons. The BBC were selling kits too (what were > they? Ataris?), not that I ever fell for that. Acorn computers. Manufacturers of the best computer I ever owned. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove lock to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
