[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 19:23, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > If I had my druthers, Solaris/Sparc would be my choice for servers, it's
> > > a tossup for workstations (Solaris/Sparc, Linux, Mac OS X), firewalls
> > 
> > Gah!  How can you even contemplate Solaris/SPARC for a workstation over
> > OSX or Irix on Iris hardware?!?  I've used a lot of SPARCs as desktop
> > machines, and it's torturous.  Even my Ultra-1 170/Creator is hard to
> > stand compared with my Indy with 24-bit option.
> 
> That's strictly for a work environment, in which I would be in a support
> or management role.  Also, Star Office (or Open Office) won't run on
> Irix (yet).  In most workplaces, Irix won't float since there's no
> office suite for it.  Sad but true.  *MY* workstation at the house is a

Ah, yeah, pointy hair would mean that you need an office suite.  I did
desktop support mostly without one, though.  Mostly because the users I
supported were terrified of the computer, though.

> SGI.  Always.  Not going back.  Even my U1-170E pales next to this
> Octane, and the O2 is pretty fucking nice - better than the Indy by a
> mile.  The Indigo is nice also, suprisingly useful for a 33Mhz machine
> :)

Hmm, I should look for another SGI desktop machine.  Maybe with multiple
heads...  
	Greg

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