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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (510744)	9/6/2009 2:29:58 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580032

"you stay with ancient technology, I'll move on." Ancient technology? I guess you don't know what OS/X is based on... "All my son's computer engineering Professors use Macs." Really? Must be a community college, then. Apple has very steep discounts for educational insitutions and if price is more important than functionality... At A&M, they use either Sun workstations or high end PCs. Sun because things like Cadence don't run on PCs or fruit flavored machines. Linux is a good choice because many of the tools for Sun will also run on Linux. And, if nothing else, you can ssh into the network and spawn a XWindows session. I did that a lot for my chip design work. Dunno anyone with a Women's Studies degree. Perhaps you are confusing me with _less...