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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!smia.ambolt.no!nobody From: ambolt@stud.ntnu.no (Asgeir Nilsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 17 Apr 1996 18:33:53 +0200 Organization: Save The Anvils From Blacksmiths' Annoying Sledging (STAFBAS), Intl. Lines: 21 Sender: ambolt@smia.ambolt.no Message-ID: <m3ohoqoln2.fsf@smia.ambolt.no> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: melvinj4.stud.unit.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu's message of 16 Apr 1996 15:56:25 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.6 X-Copyright: © 1996 Asgeir Nilsen. All rights reserved. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21771 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:688 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3321 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3158 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17668 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46259 In article <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) writes: > Some people will say, "But there's more to it than just a word > processor!" Really? I have to take off my shoes and my friend's gloves > so that I can count the number of people that I know personally who only > use their computers for word processing. Their stupid little PC boots, > loads Win[3.1|95|NT], and MS Word is in the Startup group. It runs right > away, and that's all they ever use it for. You forget one big element that a LOT of people want. GAMES. Will DOSEMU ever be powerful enough? Sure, people could have a DOS partition lying around, rebooting each time you feel like trying the hottest, coolest whatever. But rebooting all the time is ``too much work'' for a lot of people.. -- Asgeir Nilsen (+47) 73 88 72 25 ambolt@stud.ntnu.no (finger for PGP key) Herman Kragsv 41-43 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~ambolt/ N-7035 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY