Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:56:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912301453080.90937-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991230041316.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Will Andrews wrote: >Heh.. there's such a thing as a keyboard-ridden GUI environment. And that's >mine - WindowMaker. The simple beauty of the shell comes with a victim - >productivity. I can do a hell of a lot more at once with X than console. >Although that's mostly because of higher resolutions and more scrollback >support. ;) I have to agree with you there. I love windowmaker, and as long as you have the memory, it lets you multitask very smoothly. And since it has a small memory footprint (IIRC) that usually won't be a problem. >> An untimely demise of Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems will not escape > >Now that's a weird one. Sun has not only survived Mirosoft's attacks but seems >to be flourishing.. mostly thanks to Linux, which (IIRC) didn't exist in 1991. Rumor has it SOlaris 8 may be a Linux-killer. >I believe Motorola and IBM have ousted SPARC with their PowerPC chips. I thought the PowerPC was practically dead? -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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