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Old 14th August 2008
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I personally preferred the Sun (I had a 3/60) because it used standard Unix (BSD, in this case). Apollo ran their own Unix-like system, which was just enough different to be irritating. I forget all the details.
I don't remember why I preferred Apollo either but I was a hardware guy so it might have been I was more impressed with the hardware. Dunno.
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I know you meant that you did not use computers in as interesting a manner, but I'll take the quote out-of-context and agree with you literally. The early days were wild and wooly, and interesting new things were coming out all the time. These days the computer scene is very uniform, and while the progress is still rapid, the software models and bundles are pretty well fixed.
Exactly what I meant. Now I have to go take a nap.
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