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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
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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>
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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.


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