::scr Dressing up the computer

Chris Devers scr@thegestalt.org
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:00:37 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:53:47PM +0000, Simon Wistow said:
> > It's morphed into Display PDF ... which is used in OSX. [0]
> 
> [0] Hmm, Steve Jobs, fresh from failure with the NeXT cube which ran
> Display Postscript and was based on a BSD Mach Kernel, comes back to
> Apple and creates a Cube. And an OS that's based on Display PDF and a
> BSD Mach Kernel. Obsess Much? 

...and, in moving from NeXT to MacOSX, moves from one product with WeiRD
capitalization to AnotHER. No no, no strange aesthetic obsessing there... 

:)


--
Chris Devers

"Okay, Gene... so, -1 x -1 should equal what?" "A South American!"    
[....] "no human can understand the Timecube" and Gene responded
 without missing a beat "Yeah.  I'm not human."