Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: TaliesinSoft Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The long decline of the Mac desktop? Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:45:58 -0500 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net nNkJY2ZSamofNE9pSAP8awBeKIo17m4jq0LSY71mtCqiOgMV8C1HI9Gs5i2+VgoThX Cancel-Lock: sha1:pYhT2hz6Y6/iIlc3J2NELRauAEk= User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29666 On 2012-08-18 15:32:29 +0000, China Blue [Tor], Meersburg said: > My first computer were not a desktop but a roomful: a CDC 6400 which I shared > with a bunch of other people, sitting at the console with O26 and DIS in the > middle of the night. Now I use a MacBook Pro. If I could do software > development > and everything else I do on an iPod, I would. And in a few years I likely will. The CDC 6400 was the third computer I worked with, being preceded by a Bendis G20 and an ANFSQ-7. I was a member of the CDC group iin Palo Alto and which were mplementing a COBOL compiler for the CDC 6400. -- James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas