On 2/28/11 9:45 PM, William Yang wrote:
Sun even tried to steal a page out of Apple's 1980 playbook by seeding
schools with Sun Rays. A 1980's kid had most likely never seen a
computer. Pac-Man wasn't even out until 1980. The Apple could have been
complete crap and it still would have succeeded. A 1999 kid had Windows
95, 98, ME, and XP beta. They had Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation, Sega
Dreamcast. To think that you'd gain mind share and adoption from these
kids by sitting them down in front of Solaris 7 and CDE is as likely as
the orginial Star Trek (special effects and all) warmly received 20
years after Star Wars was released.
Gosh...CDE.... I can see that not really working. Though I do have to say,
from personal experience, Solaris 10 and JDS (after significant local
customizations to the OS in general) was very successful in gaining student
mind share (we had students referring to the Sun Rays as "the cool Sun
computers").
What local customizations, anything "general" and appropriate for
sharing with the group?
One person even told me she was thinking about getting one for
home before I explained a bit more about why that might not quite work.
Hmm? Sun Rays, or Sun computers in general? I've been running Sun
Rays at home since 2001, and Sun computers at home since the Sun-2 days.
(meaning the Motorola 68010-based Sun-2/120 and Sun-2/170, not
SPARCstation-2!) This isn't at all unusual; I have lots of friends and
colleagues doing both.
The
thing with schools is that it's all about the overall user experience and
not what it's running on. It has to look good, run fast, and make it easy
for people to get their business done.
I think these are perfectly reasonable requirements.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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