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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 8 Mar 1995 03:29:19 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3jj8af$66n@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <3ira54$7vq@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> <3jbrf1$vl@delos.BSDI.COM> <1995Mar5.171038.26486@wave <3jfj9f$h9g@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <3jfj9f$h9g@fido.asd.sgi.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >It's easier to do yet another SCSI framework than it is to figure out >how to do WordPerfect. A shame, because anyone that can hack in the >kernel is almost certainly capable of doing some very nice applications. This is not necessarially true. Very nice applications require a fair amount of ingenuity when designing the user interface (something entirely lacking in WordPerfect 5, for example, which is a royal pain for good touch typists to use). cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.