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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8199 comp.os.linux.misc:11876 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1104 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!kees From: kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994 Date: 31 Mar 1994 22:47:57 GMT Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2nfjut$3ar@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> <JKH.94Mar19232903@whisker.hubbard.ie> <1994Mar20.183234.27732@mksinfo.qc.ca> <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <newcombe.22.000D9C0F@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: >In article <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >>>and IBM's OS/2 for Windows. Maybe MS is realizing that letting people >>>run Windows apps. on something other than MSDOS is a good thing. >>is a bit of a joke even with 16Mb of RAM. If they started shipping >>stuff like Word For Windows 6 and some of their other really good >>applications stuff for Unix (by whatever sensible porting means) it might >>appear on my planned shopping list (in fact its very likely too) >Gee...if they did that, and I could get it for Linux (at a reasonable cost), I >could delete my DOS partition all together, leaving only the small fragment >that I use for games. >WordPerfect has a version for X, I'm surprised that MicroSloth hasn't followed >suit, as it's seems like it'd be a good place to compete. Or is Bill Gates so >concerned with making everything have the MicroJunk API??? > -Dan You might not have noticed but several Unix oriented publications are now advertising MS Word and MS Excell for several Unix platforms. -- Kees denHartigh kees@ee.ualberta.ca Unix System Admin. Electrical Engineering Digital Labs University of Alberta 238 Civil Elect Voice (403)492-5421 Edmonton, Alberta Canada Fax (403)492-1811