Hey, they like us! Well, at least Ed does. And he's going to bring
Mac CD's.
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taxi Linux FreeBSD
Think this through with me, let me know your mind... Hunter/Garcia
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Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 08:16:12 -0700
From: Ed Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sounds great!
I was happy to hear that a few flavors of UNIX will be promoted at
CommBooth this year. I've used UNIX stuff off & on for years, tho I'm no
guru.
I noticed something in your introduction: you don't mention the PowerPC
RISC processor based machines (like Macs & IBM UNIX workstations). This
platform is indisputably the best bang for the buck when it comes to UNIX.
All benchmarks indicate that a 500 MHz Mac G4 is 2.6 times the speed of the
newest 800 MHz Pentium III. There's just no way around it -- LINUX screams
on the Mac! And FreeBSD is also available. (I'll dig up those benchmarks
and eMail them to you; I think they're on BYTE.com)
And perhaps you've also heard that the upcoming Mac System X kernal is OPEN
BSD/Mach. Old Mac programs will be emulated in a separate process from all
others (no more sytem-wide crashes!). All new Mac programs will be pure
UNIX at heart, complete with preemptive multitasking, protected memory,
etc., and it looks really, really cool. Each window or icon can have any
level of visual & functional translucency; the navigation browser is open
to imagination of the programmers. How about finding documents by flying VR
through the World Knowledge Repository or something.
Once again Steve Jobs recognized a good thing when he saw it.
Of course, all this is really to agree with you: UNIX RULES!
Anyhow, I'll see if I can get some MacLINUX CDs for the booth.
Thanks for stimulating this new direction for the Fair.
Ed Bishop
