Re: Command-line completion

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Command-line completion
Date: 21:50 on 02 Feb 2005
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> 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.

I don't appear to have received this email, so I don't know the whole 
point you were making, but I didn't find that to be the case at all.  I 
found BeOS to be pretty damn fast, and from what I remember of NeXTs, 
the ones I used were stupid-slow.  That was before I was a real computer 
junky, and it was campus machines, on who-knows network running 
i-have-no-idea software, so...  I really only remember feeling klunky, 
but that might have been the interface because of a lack of familiarity 
or something.

>>> 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 painful.
>>
>>
>> Um, well, no. There's a lot of unnecessary hacking in there... NeXT 
>> 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?

Yes, I have, but I don't think the 14 people out there still using NeXT 
qualify as noteworthy.  I understand where NetInfo comes from, I just 
don't think it makes much sense to depend on it for much because it sets 
you outside the norm so far.

> What I remembered about the NeXT stations I used (a 030 Cube and a 040 
> ColorStation) is that they were, or at least *felt*, really faster than 
> my then PowerMac 603, making it look like a poor little thing...

Huh.  I just haven't had that experience, but I haven't used them much. 
  Either way, almost anything could be better than Gnome, KDE, or Aqua. 
  *shudder*

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minute.  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer
than any hour.  That's relativity."   --Albert Einstein
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