Re: hot-swappable hardware (was: [MacPerl] beginner perlquestions pls)

[Patrick Beart <patrick@WebArchitecture.com>]

On 11/11/98, Chris Nandor took the time to write:
>At 20.03 -0500 1998.11.10, Patrick Beart wrote:
>>	I love my Mac, but if I couldn't use it I'd be knocking on Sun's
>>door before you could say "System 8.5"!   The concept of hot-swappable
>>hardware impresses me.    ; )
>
>My PowerBook and (soon-to-be-had) iMac can do that.  :)  That is, the PB
>expansion bays and iMac's USB ports are hot swappable.
>
>I also used to hot-swap SCSI devices on my 7100/66, but that was not
>recommended.  But I was impressed that it always worked, and the machine is
>still running after all those years of doing it.  :)
>
	That's great, but not what I meant.

	Sun's OS is so robust that you can change RAM and (I'm told) the
entire motherboard while the machine is running!  I'm not talking about
peripherals, here. I mean the internal components. I'm rarely impressed,
but Sun has my attention.
	It's my understanding that they also intend to port their "Java
Development Kit" to Lynux.

	So much of PERL and other, related, languages is UNIX-based, I find
it difficult not to look increasingly towards improving my skillset and
attempting to learn UNIX. MacPerl is my first step that direction. Tcl/Tk
is next - assuming I'm successful.    ; )


Patrick Beart

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