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From: warren@debra.doc.ca (Warren Baird)
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Subject: Re: IIgs "toy" computer?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 14:05:05 GMT
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In article <90309.212836UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET> UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes:
>I just bought an old Sun 2/120 to play with (I havn't actually GOTTEN it yet,
>but pieces are in the mail and should arrive quite soon) so I've started
>reading comp.sys.sun and alt.sys.sun and a little comp.sys.NeXT just 'cuz I'm
>impressed with the machine.  Now for the bulk of the message....I've been into
>Apple's for about 10 years now, I've got a IIgs (loaded) and I thought I knew
>quite a bit about it, and computers in general.  Now in reading these new
>groups I feel like an absolute idiot/neophyte.  Are these machines really that
>much more complex, or is it simply because I'm so new to the platform?
>
>Just fishing for impressions...
>
>Mike

Owning and operating a Sun probably isn't as difficult as it may sound
from reading comp.sys.sun, most of the postings that I've read there
are from people who are having strange problems that don't show up all
of the time.  Nice to know that there is at least a group like that if
you do start having problems.

I think a multi-tasking, possibly multi-user computer will always be
more complicated than a single-user, single process computer...  Unix
is quite a change from GSOS, IMHO a change for the better.  I've been
using Unix for about a year now, and I find that it's much easier and
friendlier than GSOS.   I admit that I'm not into systems programming
or anything like that, but I find that C programming is MUCH easier and
faster on a Unix machine with memory protection...  I don't think I'd
even try to write anything fancy on a GS now that I've had experience
programming on a Sun 3/60 (I don't have a hard drive, and I can only
sit there watching the 'Welcome to the IIgs' message for 50 seconds so
many times before I get tired of programming...)

I'm not going to sell my GS, but I know that my next computer will be a
Unix box, like a Sun SparcStation, or an IBM RS/6000.  Tell me what you
think of the 2/120 when you get it...

Warren


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