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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: Various X-apps for *BSD?
Message-ID: <CDEKMG.88L@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 16:03:52 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
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Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes:
>>Hi:
>>Let's say I got the crazy idea that I wanted to change over all my DOS users
>>who have 486 machines with plenty of RAM and disk and S3 display cards to
>>*BSD and X (from DOS stuff). What, if anything, (free) is out there for X word
>>processors, spreadsheets, drawing/layout, database management?
>Nothing that's anywhere near as good as DOS.
>If you want to make their lives better, dump the boxes and get Macs.
>Sorry, but it's the truth. Unix has lost the end-user race.
>(i.e. there is no "Video For Unix" multimedia architecture, and
>never will be.) It's a great development system, and that's
>what it was designed to be. I don't use, I develop. That's
>why I still put up with it. When I can compile and test a program
>without crashing a Mac, I'll dump this Unix junk.
>Put down that F key; I've been a Unix hack since '79 and
>am quite qualified to say the above.
The only thing I would disagree with is the "Video For UNIX". Take a
look at what SGI is doing.
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen