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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!shellx!tporczyk From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apple/NeXTStep/Mach and free Unixes (Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD) Date: 30 Dec 1996 16:33:58 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Lines: 15 Message-ID: <tporczyk.851992328@shellx> References: <32C063E4.69BE@ibm.net> <32C0DF02.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <tporczyk.851889405@shellx> <32C725AC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <tporczyk.851965555@shellx> <tporczyk.851966319@shellx> <1996Dec30.194620.12275@wavehh.hanse.de> <5a9gnt$82j@fridge-nf0.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33388 nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) writes: >Or we can keep developing apps within the Unix community that won't >ever be ported to PCs/Macs. What do you think could a possible impact be of Corel preparing a release of Office entirely in Java? Would that make it easier for us to run "mainstream" business apps (however slow)? t. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@infobound.com * San Jose, California GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ USLB++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5++ R* D---- e* V-- h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)>? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------