Just to add to Arup's BeOS lust ... They recently unveiled a BeOS based
Machine for just $199 ! That includes USB connectivity, option to connect
either to a monitor or a TV with no Floppy decent RAM and a 2G HDD etc...
Look at Microworkz iToaster in the MSNBC Site.... The Site says something
like 'Look Ma No Windoz' and then proceeds to clarify that the site is
owned by M$!!!
INIGO
At 11:04 PM 6/26/99 +0530, you wrote:
>Absolutely right on! In fact, most people in US univ. has never laid
>hands on a non-Unix [insert variant here] m/c.
>
>A good case in point is Phil Greenspun one of the users of the net at
>MIT way back in the 1970's. In fact, his email address is still
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] from 1974. You can check out his book available online at
>www.photo.net/wtr/thebook. In one of the chapters he writes that he
>stuck to Unix and didn't migrate to NT but as Indra
>has rightly put in we have to deliver the goods, so we still use M$
>bloatware.
>
>Has anyone used BeOs? Heard its browser has Haiku poems fro error
>messages, that will be cute.
>
>Arup
>
>Amlan Saha wrote:
>>
>> Indranil Das Gupta writes:
>> > Love it or hate it...the conditions are not yet entirely such that
just
>> > working with Linux will provide us with a decent living. Besides,
take
>>
>> I disagree. But then again, maybe it differs from place to place.
>>
>> -amlan.
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