Who Will Show Up to Linux's Steam-Powered Playground?

[Chris Rees]

On 19 May 2010 02:43, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 09:20 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Huh? There would be more of them old iMacs over here if that were the
>> case if they were given away. Nor does that account for why students and
>> teachers today are opting to buy Macs/Macbooks today after a
>> long/longish history of using Windows. It is certainly not because of
>> gaming nor graphics arts...
>>
>
> NOT gaming.....graphic arts AND they were had in academia at cost or
> below cost in come cases.....fact. Now, that's here in the US, I don't
> know what happened in the "early days" outside of the US.
>
> Today, teachers who really don't want to know very much (about a lot of
> things, including puters ;) ) will opt for Macs over MickySoft, which IS
> a logical thing to do as they are by nature more stable and secure.
> Don't misunderstand, I don't own one nor do I use anything from
> Redmond....Linux only.
>

We (UK) tended to use Acorn products in schools in those days; the BBC
Micro and the Archimedes!

These guys were the predecessors to the ARM machines you see today.

Chris