What's not to love? A small and beautiful PowerPC Unix workstation, something IBM hasn't done in a long, long time. How far does MacPorts go with a PPC?

I’m easy to find. There are very few Bánffys named Ricardo.

I really love it. I’m a bit surprised no movie student ever took a stab on it. It’s easy to produce, can be done in a meeting room with no windows.

Just wait a generation or two.

How niche is retrocomputing?

I absolutely love my ancient machines, and I use them to explore period applications, much more than games.

I also love to restore and preserve them. There’s something magical about a Sun workstation Solaris 2 a Frog Design Trinitron monitor. or a Microvax running VMS and DECWindows. Or a multi-user Altair Z80. I think it’s sad a lot of software was lost and some platforms were denied the documentation that’d enable their preservation (looking at you, IBM - document the AS/400 and release old OS to hobbyists).

You were rude for absolutely no reason. You could point out where you think the article comes short and make suggestions on how to improve it. With this approach, you achieved nothing.

Being competent requires being knowledgeable AND getting things done. You might be knowledgeable, but you need to learn how to work with other people.

> Do you have an example use case?

The one that comes to mind is HPC, where you avoid over allocation of the physical cores. If the process has the whole node for itself for a brief period, inefficient memory access might have a bigger impact than memory starvation.

IBM also has their RAID-like memory for mainframes that might be able to do something similar. This feels like software implemented RAID-1.

Someone has their bonus tied to how many copies of Edge are installed.

Interesting and fun read - we are well into the terrain of what was completely impossible to do back then. Now I can't wait to see a faster AppleSoft ROM ;-)