From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 22:20:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28870 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:20:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199902060623.BAA27659@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by marsellus.itribe.net (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA21751; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 01:20:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 01:20:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Wes Peters cc: Drew Baxter , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD trivia In-Reply-To: <19990205225904.L6050@softweyr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > All the hoopla over what an earth-shattering design the iMac is > really ticks me off. Apparently these boneheads have never seen > a SPARCstation SLC or ELC. Or this the wonder solely reserved for > the color? I do. Boy did they suck. At least ELC's had an external SCSI connector, SLC's were strictly diskless. I think the iMac would suffer the same fate if the masses weren't so stupid. Why would you buy a machine that you -cannot- add drivespace to? > > Maybe Sun ougtta revive the ELC, stick a shrunken Ultra-5 mother > board in it, and call it the iSPARC. I'd buy one of those for a > dollar. ;^) I'd give 'em 5 for it. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message