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I must say you're inspiring a veritable cornucopia of bad memories. I suppose that's appropriate for this list. > I used to hates CBM for not doing something more clever with the Amiga > when their board voted on seppuku, but now I think all those fanboys > still trying after more than a decade to resurrect the spirit of that > piece of crap are wasting their oxygen. In 10 years of real development, > maybe they could have made it a modern OS (again). As it is, it's still > not modern (again), and it's still ugly. Well, actually, there doesn't seem to be any part of the software they're calling Amiga* these days that has anything to do with the software that made the Amiga interesting and useful, so they seem to have gone to rather a lot of trouble to start over from scratch and recreate all the bad things and none of the good. > I also used to hates Apple for subsuming my sweet, lovely NeXT when they > borgged with OpenStep, but I just installed OpenStep into Virtual PC, > and realized that I was romanticizing the whole thing. The NeXT non-menu-bar is the second stupidest UI innovation I can think of offhand, after the single-button mouse. > > And my NeXTstation has just decided to quit booting from floopy. Anyone > > got a NeXTstation boot floppy image they can send me? > Have you tried Apple Support? If I want an intel *step boot floopy, they have a nice selection. Nothing useful for black hardware, though.There's stuff above here
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