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DIY refrigerator in sailboat
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:55:29 +0000, Jere Lull wrote:
Mac OS on top of UNIX makes the transition seamless. pedantic MacOS X _is_ a variant of BSD Unix; the offspring of Steve Jobs' NeXT computer experiment circa 1990 where his company created first the NeXTStep and then the OpenStep operating systems. Google the NeXT Cube. These beautifully designed machines are the platforms upon which Tim Berners-Lee created the "World Wide Web" at CERN. /pedantic as to nonsense about "needed" software, I know a thing or three about computers and as a Unix/Linux sysadmin and user, I haven't needed _any_ MS software for over 10 years now. Why other people aren't able to grasp this reality is beyond me. It ain't hard. If I can do it... My wife has used Mac exclusively for a year now and doesn't seem to be missing anything either. But then she wanted a computer, not an XBox. You are right. We will be spared. |
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DIY refrigerator in sailboat
"mr.b" wrote in news
as to nonsense about "needed" software, I know a thing or three about computers and as a Unix/Linux sysadmin and user, I haven't needed _any_ MS software for over 10 years now. Why other people aren't able to grasp this Which Unix usenet client are you using? Larry -- VIRUS ALERT! VISTA has been released! NOONE will be spared! |
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