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Peter da Silva wrote: > And it was more responsive on a 7.14 MHz 68000 than BeOS (or MacOS9, = or > Linux) on a 100 MHz PPC. > [...] >> Even OS X is an embarassment. They've done a pretty good job of >> creating a well-integrated sufficiently functional interface, but the >> amount of hacking they had to do to sit Aqua on Darwin is just=20 >> painful. > > Um, well, no. There's a lot of unnecessary hacking in there... NeXT=20 > did it > better, Plan 9 IPC and lightweight fork() would be even nicer. > >> "Oh, NetInfo, yeah, _everyone_'s using that." > > You ever used a NeXT? What I remembered about the NeXT stations I used (a 030 Cube and a 040=20= ColorStation) is that they were, or at least *felt*, really faster than=20= my then PowerMac 603, making it look like a poor little thing... S=E9bastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ] Close the world, txEn eht nepOThere's stuff above here
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