At 21:41 27.02.2001 +0000, you wrote:
>I've been using a Cobalt Raq3 for that. That doesn't even have keyboard,
>video or mouse ports... Still an excellent box!
Hi Marcus,
cool, I have been using a Raq as a mailserver for some
time now. You're right, it's a no hassle, easy to set up box
(Red Hat, I think...) and well worth it's price.
>One of the best UNIX CLIs was part of Apple's now-defunct A/UX UNIX. It
>had a system called commando where you could type a command on a CLI, hit
>a hot key, and it popped up a dialogue box with all the options for that
>command with full
>online help. You just check the boxes, fill in the fields, hit return and it
>builds the command line for you. It was an excellent learning device too, as
>you got straightforward explanations of options that were normally buried
>deep in a man page.
Wow, that sounds really good, not as a replacement for man pages,
but as an additional functionality. Why didn't they include in OS X?
>The "Aqua" interface (like it or not!) is built on top of the Quartz 2-D
>graphics API, which itself is really quite revolutionary:
> The whole screen is addressable as a PDF (PDF is also the OSX native
>graphics format)
> All double-buffering is done by the OS (a first AFAIK), so you'll never see
>a flicker, and apps are easier to write.
> Everything maps through to other interfaces (a favourite Apple demo is to
>show an OpenGL model textured with a live, editable PDF).
Hmm, sounds like I should really get more into OS X...I hadn't
expected Apple to build such a serious system, after all ;-)
I have a G3 powerbook, which is running Linux and MacOS,
and which I really love. It's a fast and beautiful notebook.
Like you, I need the MacOS part for multimedia production,
but sometimes it really freaks me out, 'cause it just crashes
way too many times for my taste :-( Even MOL (MacOnLinux)
on Linux is more stable....how ironic.
Anyway, so I think I should upgrade to OS X, start embracing
the new technology and stop complaining....over and out.
Martin.
Martin Kloss
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