Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:53:47 -0500 From: Jesse Tilly <jtilly@uswebcks.com> To: 'Jonathon McKitrick' <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, 'Will Andrews' <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: 'freebsd-chat' <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s Message-ID: <A524F851EA50D311BA4200508B2C4C03DC1200@atldcsexc01.atlanta.usweb.com>
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"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" The PowerPC is alive and kicking. Not only does it power all Apple computers (the G3 and G4 are PowerPC generational chips), but they power IBM's top-o-tha-line RS/6000 workstations. Jesse -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathon McKitrick Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:56 AM To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: RE: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Will Andrews wrote: >Heh.. there's such a thing as a keyboard-ridden GUI environment. And that's >mine - WindowMaker. The simple beauty of the shell comes with a victim - >productivity. I can do a hell of a lot more at once with X than console. >Although that's mostly because of higher resolutions and more scrollback >support. ;) I have to agree with you there. I love windowmaker, and as long as you have the memory, it lets you multitask very smoothly. And since it has a small memory footprint (IIRC) that usually won't be a problem. >> An untimely demise of Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems will not escape > >Now that's a weird one. Sun has not only survived Mirosoft's attacks but seems >to be flourishing.. mostly thanks to Linux, which (IIRC) didn't exist in 1991. Rumor has it SOlaris 8 may be a Linux-killer. >I believe Motorola and IBM have ousted SPARC with their PowerPC chips. I thought the PowerPC was practically dead? -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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