[rescue] 1st SGI purchase

[Big Endian]

>On 2002.03.29 11:34 Guy Yasko wrote:
>
>>  Indy Drawbacks:
>>      * The NVRAM issue is a good reason to avoid them. 
>This applies for every Sun made in the past 13 years also. I don't know
>how many Sun NVRAMs are gone through my hands to replace the battery...
>(Some friends call me the NVRAM surgeon.)
>
>>      * The bang for buck ratio isn't as good with the Indy, either.
>Who cares for the bang? It is a nice machine with nice features like the
>Indy Cam and it runs a nice UINX OS. (I have never seen an other GUI
>with vector icons that are continuously adjustable in size and this
>feature is at least 10 years old.)

Mac OS X has this, and I belive Open/NextStep had it too.

daniel
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