From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 8 12:49:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25883 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from zip.io.org (root@zip.io.org [198.133.36.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25878 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by zip.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA06359; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:48:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:48:39 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: Here comes the next wave to UNIX-wannabes... In-Reply-To: <14553.823810416@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Aw, c'mon - this is the Apple Power Mac we're talking about, the > machine you'll be seeing in 2 years at used computer stores, right > next to their fleet of Osborne I portables.. :-) No, quite the opposite... the PowerMac hardware is something I drool over (the 9500/132 is impressive). Here Apple has a chance to give it a decent operating system to go with it, and they choose.... Linux??? Egads. I can't wait in about a year's time when first-time Mac users start hearing how great UNIX is for connecting to the Internet, and our customer support folks go even more nuts trying to explain the inner workings of UNIX to the newbies. :-/ -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"