Re: Geez... I'm just gonna so want one.

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From: Jeff Bone (jbone@jump.net)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 19:58:47 PST

Eirikur Hallgrimsson wrote:

> On Monday 12 February 2001 01:20, you wrote:
> > Forget the new PowerBook. (Hard, I know. Much harder if they'd just
> > DITCHED MacOS AND MOVED NEXTSTEP ALONG!)
>
> The platinum (err, titanium) PowerBook booted LinuxPPC first try.
> Give it a couple of months out there so that the pmud sleep/wake
> functionality and any new funky IO stuff works properly. V2.0
> of the hardware is rumored to be lighter....and the Linux world will have
> caught up with the chipset changes by then.

Yeah yeah. I run WindowMaker on my ixen at home, but still... there was
just something slammin' about real, live NeXTStep. Apple shoulda just open
sourced it and rolled it. I'm still not sold on the bastard hybrid offspring
approach.

>
>
> Eirikur (typing on his 'raster-age talisman' a G3 Wallstreet PB)

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