[rescue] Re: [geeks] I think I need to change my pants...

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Ahh, and there's no infighting or politiking in linux <Grin>.  I think
politiking on an Opensource OS is a waste, but hey
	Nick

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > Apple does have some neat products, but after the way they screwed the IIfx &
> > > A/UX owners I dropped them and swore I'd never buy another Mac.
> > 
> > What did they do to the 2FX and A/UX people?
> 
> For the IIfx, they made all these claims that the IIfx had the fastest SCSI
> of any Mac, which it didn't; they said the new memory type would be used on
> future Macs, which it wasn't, which meant all that investment in memory was
> wasted; they said the system would be upgradeable, but it was discontinued.
> 
> For A/UX, the major issue was they dropped it completely.  They also never
> properly supported the GPi pin on the serial ports, claiming that not all
> Macs had the GPi pin, but all Macs that could run A/UX did have the GPi pin,
> and it could have been a configuration option anyway.
> 
> I sold my loaded IIfx with A/UX and bought a Wintel box to run Linux.  Actually,
> I originally was going to run BSD, but all the infighting and bitching in the
> BSD crowd turned me off.
> -- 
> Eric Dittman
> dittman at dittman.net
> Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/
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