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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!alfrothul.uchicago.edu!root From: chan@alfrothul.uchicago.edu (C. Chan) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: alfrothul.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <4ku2n2$sqa@alfrothul.uchicago.edu> Lines: 31 Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University Of Chicago References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:57:54 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21377 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:591 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3197 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3007 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17336 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45448 In article <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de>, Scot W. Stevenson <scot@catzen.gun.de> wrote: >Hello Tony, > >> > Windows NT has too heavy a footprint (and price) for the desktop. > >> Actually, Windows NT workstation is only $295. > >(Laugh) Yeah, which is just about $295 over my budget...remember, there >are a bunch of students over here, too... > >Y, Scot > > >-- > Scot W. Stevenson scot@catzen.gun.de Essen, Germany > > The pen is mightier than the sword, but to really kick ass you > need a computer. Our University has a Microsoft site discount, so NT 3.51 workstation is only around $150. Still about $150 more than I want to pay for it. There are commercial spreadsheets for Linux, check out WingZ and XQuad (the latter can read Excel 4 sheets). And there is WordPerfect from Caldera coming soon. The makers of XQuad also have a DTP program called Xclamation. They cost money, but a little startup like X4U has to make a living somehow. Check out ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/office/X4u for a demo. -- C. Chan <chan@alfrothul.uchicago.edu> | .chigless in Chicago