On Monday, January 03, 2011 05:28:23 pm Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > For its time, the Indy was pretty cool. > > SGI was the Unix world's answer to the Apple Macintosh: Physical > design is colorful, bold, almost artistic; all the OEM pieces work > together very well; oh-so-pretty desktop GUI; utterly incompatible > with anything third-party; way more expensive than everything else. > ;-) > > Now, of course, with OS X, Apple has reclaimed that particular > niche. There's a strange kind of symmetry there.
I can remember seeing Jurassic Park and seeing all those SGI workstations all around the place, with a Connection Machine as a background prop. Coming from a Tandy 1000/Apple II world when I was young the graphics floored me. I think that shaped my mind that Unix was a high-end scientific and visualization operating system rather than the almost purely server world it's in right now. This also drove me to start using Linux as well. I remember Apple having a flavor of Unix in the early 90s. I used it only once and found it somewhat awkward to use. Going with a re-made NeXTStep was definitely the better choice. -Ryan _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
