Xerox D-Machines (was Re: [rescue] The fat lady. . .)

[William Barnett-Lewis]

You want that? Been there done that. Find a Xerox 1186 (aka 6085)
running the Medley release of Interlisp. 20 years ahead of anything (yes
_anything_ ) on the market today. Be ready to live with dying monitors,
5.25" full height disks, and power supplies but while she's running that
old D machine will blow anything else ever made out of the water. Other
bits will be faster; none will be more elegant. DWIM for example...or a
real structure editor (emacs is a sickly as vi once you've tried
that)... 


>On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:32:14PM +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:01:41PM -0600, Amy wrote:
>> >
>> > BTW, have you looked at AthenaOS?  although it doesn't have a chance
>> > of becoming my main OS until it get hardware 3D acceleration, which doesn't 
>> > look likely anytime soon
>> 
>> Grab yourself, a copy of Debian (www.debian.org), a PowerPC or Intel box
>> and a sweet graphics card...  apt-get install XFree4, which *really* rocks;  
>> Then grab a SBLive!, and finish off with a sprinkling of your favourite
>> Window Manager's BeOS theme.
>> 
>> Why Wait?  We *have* Q3A at more fps than Windows;  already...
>
>The point is, we want more than just another unix, and preferably we also would
>like to chuck intel while we are at it.  I want a scheme based machine with
>Common Lisp, Python, and smalltalk support on top, a lisp optimized CPU, and
>killer graphics support, preferably more flexible than GL.  In loo of that, I
>want a really great file system that is standardized for the platform so that 
>most apps take advantage of it.
>
>-- 
>Joshua D. Boyd

William
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