> markets. Windows, Macintosh and Unix, those are the platforms.
What about VMS?!? Don't forget the herds of VAXen roaming the electronic
frontier...
Sorry, I had to do it.
Hi. I'm a long time lurker, first time responder. I guess I thought it
was about time I sent you a little message with two simple words:
Right on!
I just graduated college. For the last year I've been reading your pieces
in DaveNet trying to get a grasp of the computer industry through your
eyes, as well as discussing it with profs, fellow students, and a few
friends out in the biz. I have often used your arguments (successfully) in
conversations where I was defending the Mac as a platform.
Now I'm in the computer industry, internet connectivity, actually. Where I
work, I'm a Mac guru (read that as I'm the only one who is willing to play
with Macs). I feel, as you do, that the Mac has been wrongly shuned in
the computer world (especially when co-workers complain about those "future
boat anchors" that only I seem to understand). It blows my mind that Apple
is seeming to ignore the potential of its platform as a workhorse web
server. Why is it taking bright and driven developers like Chockton and
yourself to work with that potential and make it a reality. Why can't
Apple make the file system faster? Hell, it's _their_ file system!
Keep pressing the attack. I want to see the Mac still an important
platform in ten years. I want to be able to look over at my co-workers
running Win'06 and giggle how it looks like MacOS 7.5, and the MacOS is
rocking the computer world. Youthful naivate? Maybe. Silly dreaming?
Probably. Then again, people, companies, and countries have flourished
holding true to silly dreams.
Keep pressing the attack. My meager C++/HTML/FORTRAN knowledge won't do
much to really get to Apple. Take the lead, and us hacks will follow...
-Dan Adinolfi
PS FORTRAN and VAXen? Yup. I was an Astrophysics major in college. NASA
loves their '70s technology, and I did a good deal of research in planetary
science (the Voyager probes didn't seem to know UNIX). Still, DEC Alphas
are pretty fine machines. Funny how no one is writing a web server for
VMS...
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Daniel R.S. Adinolfi, the Astromancer
AKA Gabriel, Angst Cafe, crystal.palace.net 5150
Class of '96, Department of Astronomy, Department of Math, Cornell University
Jedi Knight, Son of the Sleeping Eros, Risley Hall
"The owl said, 'Who?' He should have asked, 'Why?' Don't be the owl..."
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