On April 15, 2004 09:10 pm, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 06:55:29PM -0600, Sean Brown wrote: > > You make your Mum use FreeBSD? Thats just cruel. > > A couple of things here: when I was still at home I had Linux > installed on my iMac, and she dutifully confused it for Mac OS. > She couldn't tell the difference, even though her Colour Classic, > SE/30, and SE all ran System 7. She has since bought my iMac (so > that I could afford a PowerBook), I installed Mac OS 9 on it, and > she never uses it! > > She seems to have this philosophy; certain machines are good for > certain things. Her FreeBSD box is good for the Internet. Her > Colour Classic is good for her cook book. Her Wintel box (currently > broken) is good for her vinyl cutter. > > But I do plan on forcing Mac OS (via the iMac) on my mom. How is > that for CRUEL! (I would love to get them online with the Colour > Classic, but that just isn't going to happen. ;-) > > Byron. She'll thank you for it, Mum's shouldn't have to rebuild kernels. All kidding aside, for a long time we had a computer provided by the company that my dad worked for, first they were the largest apple customer in Canada, then moved to NT, so we had a SE (OS 6), SE/30 (OS 7), then a ppro running NT 4, and my mum still thinks fondly of the Mac, and an SE was the first thing that I bought after getting my first job.
Mothers like the MacOS. BTW what is FreeBSD on that she can't copy recipes to a floppy and get them from the Mac to BSD. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
