On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:30:42PM -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
> > From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Yup, that's exactly what we need. A Mac without the GUI so as to be
> > non-proprietary. Huh?
>
> You can run X-Windows on Darwin. Not exactly capable of running the
> Adobe Creative Suite, but Gimp and Ink run on it.
>
> But more important than that, you can actually see how to write low-
> level drivers and such. That tends to make for cleaner code than when
> you're simply coding to an interface spec. An example's worth a
> million API manuals.
This, in itself is a function of the underlying OS... But (and I keeps
a'pitchin' 'em & you keeps a'missin' 'em) if you're gonna do that, then
you might as well just get the few hundred bucks of non-proprietary
garbage from the local PC store, instead of the expensive garbage from
steve's joint...
davidt
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