Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 17:56 this Sunday (GMT):

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote at 14:31 this Friday (GMT):

Werner P. <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:

I think the last computer which really impressed me, speaking of
computers only was the NeXT Cube.

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I wasn't really all that impressed with the NeXTcube.  It wasn't all that
different from existing Unix workstations, including being very expensive.
I found the BeBox, released a few years later, more impressive as it had
dual CPUs and a much more affordable price.  While not really aimed at
consumers it was as close as we'd see to a dual-CPU home computer until
a decade later when the first dual core AMD and Intel CPUs came out.
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Plus those "Blinkenlights", the two LED strips on the front of the case
showing CPU load on the two processors, was really cool.

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I got to mess with one once and it was really cool :D

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Where can we get this? Do they exist for laptop/notebooks too?

Ah sorry I meant I got to use a NeXTcube once ^^". I'm sure it wouldn't
be super hard to set up a raspberry pi or something tho.
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