NEC SX-4B on Ebay

der Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Fri Oct 10 09:41:01 CDT 2008


>> It's a UNIX box, man.  The most (programmer-)friendly OS in
>> existence.  At least for even moderately technical people.
> There are UNIX-compatible people and non-UNIX-compatible people (cf
> Unix Hater's Handbook).

Even aside from that, I'm not convinced.  I think Symbolics Genera is
arguably more programmer-friendly, though that could just be because I
find Lisp a much nicer language than C.  (There may be even better
OSes; that's just what I have personal experience with.)

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