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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Intel Mac users only -- mac and pc the lines just
From: David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:21:11 +0930
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:30:42PM -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
> > From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Yup, that's exactly what we need.  A Mac without the GUI so as to be
> > non-proprietary.  Huh?
> 
> You can run X-Windows on Darwin. Not exactly capable of running the  
> Adobe Creative Suite, but Gimp and Ink run on it.
> 
> But more important than that, you can actually see how to write low- 
> level drivers and such. That tends to make for cleaner code than when  
> you're simply coding to an interface spec. An example's worth a  
> million API manuals.

This, in itself  is a function of the underlying OS... But (and I keeps
a'pitchin' 'em & you keeps a'missin' 'em) if you're gonna do that, then
you might as well just get the few hundred bucks of non-proprietary
garbage from the local PC store, instead of the expensive garbage from
steve's joint...

davidt



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