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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:13500 comp.os.os2.misc:92270 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:24484 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2383 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.unix.misc,comp.windows.x.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: OpenStep for $100 Message-ID: <hastyCoLKuB.BtF@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2p3obs$f8k@acme.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 07:01:19 GMT Lines: 33 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 alternative in the traditional workstation is more than an order of magnitute more expensive. The real question should be to whom do we wish to target FreeBSD to ? Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X