Subject: Re: [OT] IPX - Favourite SPARC? Re: What are you using port-sparc
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From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/30/2004 21:28:58
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I have to say, my favourite SPARC are IPX boxes, partly because of their
>> elegence, but also because it was the first SPARC (and UNIX) box I ever
>> used about 11 years ago.
> More or less the same here - I had an IPX at university and a HP9000/345 at home :)
> The IPX had a nice 20" grayscale monitor, so I ran X in StaticGray and got an ultra-crisp image in sort-of true color :)
>
>> I detect very little sentiment towards SS10/20 etc. But IPX seem to have a
>> place in a lot of people's hearts. Or maybe I'm just sad.
> Hmm, maybe a certain cuteness combined with not having a painfully slow framebuffer like the Classic :)
> ( and then there's the Hobbes issue... )
>
> So, to stay on topic - for me it's a tie between the IPX and the LX.
All I've ever had is my 'classic and I love it. It used to be my main
computer until I started buying more Macs.
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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte