| ▲ | ddingus 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Man, I sure hope this project can get traction. The Indigo Magic Desktop coupled with the 4DWM X window manager was among the top computing experiences I've had! At my peak, I was a sysadmin for our setup where I worked and as a reseller, was basically a remote sysadmin for a fair number of other installations. Used to keep lists of Free Juno numbers while traveling just so I could get online in the days before fairly ubiquitous free or low cost wi-fi. Dial up on those was what? 2.5kbytes per sec, or thereabouts. Plenty for that kind of support work, but I digress! I loved it. The red pointer, which I continue to use to this day, crisp interactions, launch/event sounds, drop pads, and too many other niceties to list here, made for great experiences. And IRIX itself was no joke. The scheduler is amazing! It remained responsive in almost all scenarios. Once, for a training class, I had updated the software revision. But, on one machine I had left the app open with some action pending. I saw one student appearing to run the old revision, which I thought impossible because those files were gone! Well, IRIX cached the whole damn thing. gr_osview showed a huge file cache, which I saw evaporate once the app was closed all the way. Then things were just fine. Excellent! And the tools. How many machines have you all used with a CD Player that had "Save Track As..." built in as a standard option. Want to remote display a high end CAD package with 3D rendering and the works? 4DWM with the GLX extensions handled it nicely. .... Anyhow, I hope this gets some momentum. I would love to run it and maybe show it off to some younger users in the building what computing was like. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sillywalk 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> How many machines have you all used with a CD Player that had "Save Track As..." built in as a standard option. The CD Player in BeOS could save all or parts of CD Tracks. Also, BeOS would show CDs as a directory of numbered AIFF or WAV files, I can't remember which. There was also some optional software that wold look up the CD info up with CDDB and would show the track names in the Tracker (the BeOS file manager) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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