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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1670 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:52:47 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!rochester!rit!isc-newsserver!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!TJG2946 From: tjg2946@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Subject: Hello folks. Message-ID: <1993Feb19.065317.21660@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Sender: news@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxa.isc.rit.edu Reply-To: tjg2946@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 06:53:17 GMT Lines: 24 I'm a current user of MS-BOS 486/33 system w/ svga 1mb and 4mb memory and 200mb HD loaded with stacker and all those stuff. Recently I had seen the light of how lame my system is under 100% BOS. I would sometime try to download a file from a BBS and use the Windork to do something else but it would complain. I had checked out OS/2 and still don't like those rumors about it, and decided to check out NT (vaporware part 2), and it won't be out until fall. So, I turned to UNIX. One of my friends pointed me to 386BSD, and stated that it provide a stable BOS usage while providing many different features including true-multitasking and good softwares which UNIX haves. I have several question about this 386BSD: Is it Shareware or Commerical? Where can I get it? How much? How many mega is suggested? How big is it? Does it provide a graphical window like X-windows? Will it be able to compress my BOS files in Unix ? I would like to learn all I can about this 386BSD, so send me all of the infos, even those which you don't think I need to know. Comeon! Make me an unix guy NOW! (GRIN) Oh yeah, is there a good word-processing program that could beat Windows (and Macs) Microsoft Word 2.0 in features and ease of use? Do you know any place which provides GOOD Unix entertainment softwares for me to check out? Thanks for your e-mails if you send me one. -T.J.