> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:36 PM
>
> ...
>
> Nope.  And now that apple gave up with their stupid video cards
> and got real
> ones, I can get quake III on my G4 at > 40 frames a sec (I think)

Hum... another essential piece of software that runs on a Mac!
=:o)


> > ...
> >
> > From what I understand, that just improved.
>
> It seems that some long-time Mac users despise the Aqua interface...

I was never such loyalist.
=;o)


> >> ...
> >> So I hook it to my desktop with a firewire cable, and automatically the
> >> partitions of the ibook drive appear as drives on my mac desktop.  Very
> >> cool.  Very transparent. Very simple.  Very fast :)
> >
> > Typical Mac. Just like with the old SCSI external disks. (You would plug
> > the disk and just get some more icons on your desktop.)
>
> :/
>
> Really?  Wasn't my recollection that you could plug into a live scsi bus.

Not live!!!

But imagine the shock, for a DOS / Windows 3.0 user, of just having to
switch
off, plug and switch on to install a disk on a PC and having the thing
putting
something from the disk on the desktop!!!

It was amazing!

(I think this was still before the IDE disk auto detection era.)


Have fun,
Paulo


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