I Have One Of The New iMacs

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: I Have One Of The New iMacs
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 07 22:00:21 GMT

… and I’ve had it for nearly 20 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation

I will buy one of the “upgrades” when they get back to
having 100dpi MegaPixel monitors and Display Postscript,
since nothing much has seemed to changed meanwhile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/graphics/nextstep.png
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/i/starmanta_nextaqua.jpg

You can also have one for free without buying new hardware
or by buying new hardware but for far less than $1000.

http://www.windowmaker.info/gallery.php
http://www.gnustep.org/

http://cgi.ebay.com/Complete-NeXT-Computer-System-with-Printer_W0QQitemZ170137436508

— MV

PS – Hint: if you need to learn how to program for Mac OSX this
is the best book you can buy:
http://www.amazon.com/NeXTSTEP-Programming-STEP-Object-Oriented-Applications/dp/0387978844

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