[SunRescue] Tim Ranting

[David Rouse]

> >>Warning, RANT<<
> 

A good rant, of course the questions in the bottom half of the rant are 
partially answered by the issues you mention in the first part. The 
computer companies and car companies are all trying to become soemthing 
you can be emotionally attached to. Thus stuff like 1999-1/2 model year 
cars and iMac revision d after almost two years of sales. Well, also to 
create and inflame desire and stuff.

But please don't bash cool cases. Reliability may be why we use Sun 
servers at work, but I've started collecting them at home partially 
because the sun cases aren't crap (sparc 10 and IPX being my reference 
points). I like the iMac case almost for the same reason, there is some 
evidence that someone took time and care to design the thing.

Of course, there is nice engineering and then there is useless chrome. 
I'm not at all happy with Aqua, for example. And MS's Chrome project ...
I haven't worked with any OS GUI's, so I can't comment on, say, 
enlightenment. OpenWindows gets out of my way and presents a very clean 
interface.

By the way, did the team that build Apple's LC cases know the team that 
built Sun's IP cases. I've wondered about the Apple 61* cases and the 
Sparc 10-20 cases. It seems that one design was influenced by another, 
but I don't know enough about the time lines to guess who influenced 
whom. Anyone know? Is there a book or web site that covers case design 
during that period?

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David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus