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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: OpenStep for $100
Message-ID: <Coop38.27y@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 23:25:55 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <2p3obs$f8k@acme.gatech.edu> <hastyCoLKuB.BtF@netcom.com>
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <2p3obs$f8k@acme.gatech.edu> ccastco@prism.gatech.edu (Costas Malamas) writes:
>>In article <cairnss.766797259@ucsu.colorado.edu>,
>>Queenie <cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
>> >dmuir@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Muir) writes:
>> >
>>a monster PC... I dont really appreciate black and white, especially when I
>>(and many others) have paid the extra $$$ to buy a nice 16bit+ card.. Nor
>>I can afford 24+ MB stadard fro color installation and 250MB of HD for OS alone
>>(granted, with lots of very nice stuff, but still.. Win 3.1 takes 20-30 full
>>blown, with an external shell like Norton's... 8 times that is pretty bad...)
>>I would have no problem paying the $300, but another 1000 for hardware is
>>pretty expensive...
>You make good points;however, bear in mind what are the alternatives for
>freebsd. We lack a GUI builder (well almost ) and simple apps like
>word-processors, spread-sheets, and consistency among our existing
>tools. The problem that I have with DOS/Windows is that you get
>nickeled and dimed to death. $50 for a memory extender, 100-$500 for
>a nice compiler. $300 for a word processor. By the time you are
>through it can easily add to more than $1000. Granted that the Unix
You don't really need the memory extender with DOS 5 or 6 (though QEMM
does offer some memory protection); most people don't need a compiler
(like say 99+% of the people out there); and you stole the word
processor from work, and they got it on site license ;-)
>alternative in the traditional workstation is more than an order
>of magnitute more expensive.
Actually, an SGI Indy isn't too much more than a well equiped PC -- and
you get a lot of extra value.
>The real question should be to whom do we wish to target FreeBSD to ?
People who want a stable UNIX for programming, X11, freeware apps, and
hacking?
>Amancio
>--
>FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound
^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^
Doing those things for free are FreeBSD's strengths.
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen