Re: learning unix w/ fbsd?

In article <1135525057.898208.319890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bas <babak.ashrafi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Ok, then, I'm silly too. That's how I learned it. My constraints were
>that I needed to do all the normal productivity stuff + emacs + TeX.
>So a friend converted my Dell (486, isa) to a NeXTSTEP machine. (I
>forget how the capitalization went.) I did everything I could in the
>GUI, but also spent a lot of time working in a shell. After NS became
>too insecure and unstable, I found it easy to convert to FBSD. My
>priorities were: 1. keep working; 2. learn about unix along the way.
>Since this is original poster's "first attempt at anything quite like
>it," he might find this approach useful as well. If, on the other
>hand, you can spare the time and a machine (or the disk space), then
>sure, bite off all you can chew. Depends.

What I've noticed is that in OS/X when you are in the shell you
don't have all the control over things that Apple has changed to
work with their GUI. But NeXTStep seemed to keep the BSD under the
pretty face pretty much intact.

NeXTStep was a resource hog in comparison to other Unixen.

And the only way to get decent color was one of the expensive video
cards with the VRAM on them - and those typically started at about
$450 [cost not list] and then went up.

But the PostScript display was truly wonderful.

Bill


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