The coolest thing I've seen this week

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lo-res smileys?  

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At work I only but X-Serves, anyway someone decided they wanted a Dull server with Red Hat Enterprise instead, so we ordered it.  Cost about the same as an XServe but no firewire 800, just 400!

I'm laying off the non-standard equipment at work, just give me Apple and I'm happy.

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Amiga = Retro computing.

That's a given, we all love to play with the Amiga much as you would tinker with a classic automobile.  It's fun, it's a hobby, get over it.

We all have our favourites in current technology, and we seem to be fairly evenly divided between MS Windows and OS X, with a few Linux folks thrown in.  That's a different thing entirely.

Fourteen years ago the company that produced the Amiga died and it's been up to us, the retro-enthusiasts, to keep the Amiga alive.  THe Amiga is never going to compete with Mac/PC/Linux and Mac/PC/Linux are never going to compete with the Amiga, those days ended way back in the last century...

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@Raffaele

Because I like retro.  It reminds me of the days of my youth.  And, and, and I can use the Amiga without fear of doing work 'cause I could do anything resembling work even if I wanted to.  It's a chance to relive the heady days of the eighties, when computing was young and you had to do without so many of the modern conveniences.  

The Amiga is the computer equivalent of camping out under the stars.

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@Rafaele

You are living in the past.  OS9 has as much to do with modern Apple, as mud brick has to do with Burj Dubai.

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@uncharted

Smileys are cool!

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It's a darn shame CBM died, teh Amiga had so much right.  AREXX was brilliant back in the day, had Amiga had a surviving parent I would not be surprised to see that extended to the Workflows of today long before they appeared in OS X.  

Did Amiga designers ever think of an XGrid type utility?