[54] in 1993-clients
comments on the Maxine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Fri Jul 10 11:22:57 1992
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 11:22:42 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: 1993-clients@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
I think that the Maxines are, all in all, excellent machines. The
performance is very good---the large swap partition and 24M of memory
help. I don't think the monitors I've seen so far are blurry, but it's
hard to say how they will age. Currently, I think that the Maxine
monitors are, on the average, sharper than most of the monochrome
monitors on the VS/2000s they replaced. If they don't degrade too much
over the years, I think they'll be fine.
DEC is slowly re-learning the art of keyboard design. The LK501-AA is a
substantial improvement over the LK201. I'm not very fond of the
location of the Alt Function key, considering that seem useless, but
other than that, the keyboard feels almost as good as RT keyboards.
(They make funny noises---I can hear the springs---but they *feel*
good.)
The existance of the 2.88M drives will be useful, as many users will be
then able to be able to back up their homedirs on a single floppy, even
with the 1.2M -> 2.2M increase done during the NFS to AFS migration.
I have a number of peeves about the DS5000/133s here, though. I'll send
them in when I've figured out what's really losing.
