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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 29 May 1994 19:10:42 -0400
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tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>In article <2sao1v$guc@acmey.gatech.edu>,
>Robert Sanders <gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>You know where I'd really like to see a coherent development effort?  I'd
>>like to see some good people get together and write a Unix word processor.
>>More so than the many competing flavors, that issue is killing Unix.
>>FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux are all very competent operating systems,
>>but you've got to give people something to *do* under them.

>"We alrreddy gots wahn.  Eez verry naaz."

>Doesn't Andrew run under both Linux and *BSD now?  I know that at some point
>recently it worked under NetBSD.

Andrew works under Linux.  In fact, someone has starting breaking up the
Andrew system into bite-sized pieces, one of which is intended specifically
for word processing.

>Andrew ez is about as nice a word-processor, multimedia editor, and so
>following as I could ever wish for.  

Well, despite your quote, a WP is not a grail.  There are lots of different
solutions, and I'm afraid most DOS/Windows users want something that has the
overall feel and layout of Microsoft Word.  ez is not that.

>And it outputs easily hand-hackable
>troff, unlike some other packages I can think of...

So its output capabilities are limited to those of troff?  How unappealing.
I use Emacs/LaTeX myself, so I'm absolutely 100% unmotivated to get involved
in this project.  It's just a vacuum that I abhor.


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