Workstation Aesthetics (was: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?)

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 01:11:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v3j58g$3j4v3$4@dont-email.me>:

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 08:34:55 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

On 6/1/2024 9:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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SGI:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEoEXHM53oQ>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ1m3rXBfo>

 
"At an affordable $25,000 back in 1990, the Personal Iris can still be
found in many companies in use as servers."

 
The Unix workstations were not cheap, but they did look good.
 
And with its fancy 3D hardware, SGI was probably the most expensive of
all.

It should be mentioned that when you helped out, and complied with
Slimer's request, he started posting about his obsession: Crump's ass.

I think this is one of those situations where "there's no accounting
for taste." There's also a bit of historical amnesia going on,
regarding what PC desktops had in terms of looks and capabilities
at the time.

My desktop (screenshots of which I've posted a couple of times
recently) is laid out similar to a Mac.  That doesn't mean I _want_
it to look like a Mac, I just reasoned that when I sit on my
wife's Mac Studio, the desktop has the same layout (more or less),
so I steer the mouse in the right direction automatically.

Comments about how CDE looked are ridiculous, when one
realizes Windows 95's look and feel were based on a cut-down
version of Motif.  Indeed -- at least for the HP9000 -- Microsoft
was among the copyright notices for the CDE.

BTW, I looked for a video demonstrating an Apollo workstation
desktop, but couldn't find anything.  Probably too old...

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