I enjoyed the show as well...I was a bit young when the Altair was first published in Radio Elec., but that didn't stop me from trying to build one. I recall spending 100's of hours piecing it all together - it all made sense when I 'wrote' 3 hours of code to add a stack of numbers together. It was (and still is) and addictive feeling to think (back then) "Wow, I just did the same thing they were doing with Eniac in my bedroom!" Now then, if we can only get Hollywood to accurately portray computers in films...there's a hack. ;) BTW-If you are still 'caught up' in the innovative 'demo or die' theme the show portrays check out the following site (http://www.be.com/) - I'm sure many of you have already been there? Are there any "Be" developers here? What are your thoughts?
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Warren wrote:
films...there's a hack. ;)
BTW-If you are still 'caught up' in the innovative 'demo or die' theme the show portrays check out the following site (http://www.be.com/) - I'm sure many of you have already been there? Are there any "Be" developers here? What are your thoughts?
I've got one - though I haven't had much of a chance to play with it so far (Be is in the same building as EIT, and I kept running into jlg in the lift :-) They are pretty cool machines - the back panel is the ultimate in geek cool (there about as many ports and sockets as a sparc center 1000). The software is pretty alpha (they make no bones about that), and I have some reservations about their decision to use C++ as the API to just about all of the OS (things get pretty fragile when upgrading), but it's still a really cool box, and even if BeOS never pans out completely, you can still run Linux on it. If you're in Menlo Park, definitely get a DEMO, it's the coolest new machine on the block. Simon p.s does anywhere sell reasonably priced replicas of classic crypto hardware?
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