Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 16:55:17 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 6/2/2024 2:18 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 09:09:14 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

On 6/1/2024 9:23 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 06:34:55 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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On 2024-06-01 12:11 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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You have no idea, do you? There are lots of clips on YouTube
showing off those 1990s-era Unix systems. You want to go educate
yourself, or shall I give you some links?

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Feel free to do so.

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NeXTStep: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7qIl59MAQ>.

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"around $18,500 for the retail entry price point."
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https://allaboutstevejobs.com/blog/2012-09-04-how-expensive-the-next-

computers-actually-were/
 
Your point?

 
That for an exorbitant amount of money, you can produce graphics that in
34 years will make a Linux advocate look like an idiot.

I don't know where you get your delusions from, but here in reality with
the rest of us, AfterStep and GNUStep live on with the NeXT legacy.  I
ran AfterStep on my desktop for many years, and I've thought about
going back...or maybe switching to Cairo.

BTW, my biz partner and I evaluated different OS's when we were doing
the research and development for our service.  NeXTSTEP 486 was one OS we
tried.  (Imagine if we'd gone with that!)  We ended up on Yggdrasil Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

That was one Linux workstation that ran the service.  It was actually
in two tower cases, the second case holding 8 SCSI CDROMs with
plenty of stuff for users to download.  Then we added another host to
handle Usenet, which got most of its feed via PAGESAT.

At the time, there was both coopitition and competition in the
marketplace, and we were in contact with other sysadmins at other services
in the area.  They thought we were crazy to be using Linux -- after all,
Sun workstations were professional, and Linux was "just a hobby OS".

Now most of the computing world runs on Linux.

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-v