On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:16 AM, ./aal wrote: > >> the mouse was developed to control a Xerox machine. I dont think >> that limits it >> > > Actually, the mouse was developed to control an early hypertext system > at SRI in 1967. People who later worked at PARC adopted it for the > Star system. Apple engineers later saw this stuff on a tour of PARC > and Apple bought the rights to a lot of what they saw (just to > forestall yet another urban legend...Apple paid Xerox in the form of a > pile of stock in Apple, which Xerox in it's inimitable way, sold, JUST > before Apple stock took off through the roof in the late 70's.
Yes you are correct.... I spoke too fast > >> and to clarify "Linux" refers only to the kernel, the rest of the OS >> is GNU. BSD uses a different kernel, but the rest is still GNU, Just >> like OSX >> > > No, it isn't. BSD is separate from GNU, and always has been. A large > number of tools ARE GNU-based but a lot have their origins in BSD. > Read your man pages... > Good point, my bad. (NET/FREE/OPEN)BSD and Linux and too fluid to state emphatically the exact makup of the tools therein. >> Again, I am not proselytizing. I am simply trying to balance the info. >> Please do more research b4 forming your humble opinion > > Please take your own advice. I do, thanks for helping me balance the info. > >> >> Nothing is an ideal swiss army knife > > > That makes me curious...just what is it that Linux is so much better > for than OS X? NOte this is NOT a sarcastic request; but what does > Linux do BETTER than OS X? (other than 'hack linux kernels') > Which is the best flavor of ice cream? Chocolate, Vanilla, Butter Pecan? There are many ways to skin a cat, serve a webpage, manage shopping carts, layout printed media, and record music. I am not replying sarcasticaly, there is simply no easy or absolute answer to that question. I am not defending Linux, nor am I attacking OSX, or even Windows. -- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei Albert Einstein - "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true a... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
