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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) 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 Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Followup-To: 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 Date: 18 Apr 1996 16:41:31 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4l5rbr$1eam@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <m3ohoqoln2.fsf@smia.ambolt.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21841 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:715 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3352 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3194 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17746 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46394 Asgeir Nilsen (ambolt@stud.ntnu.no) wrote: : In article <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu : (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) writes: : > Some people will say, "But there's more to it than just a word : > processor!" Really? I have to take off my shoes and my friend's gloves : > so that I can count the number of people that I know personally who only : > use their computers for word processing. Their stupid little PC boots, : > loads Win[3.1|95|NT], and MS Word is in the Startup group. It runs right : > away, and that's all they ever use it for. : You forget one big element that a LOT of people want. GAMES. Will : DOSEMU ever be powerful enough? : Sure, people could have a DOS partition lying around, rebooting each : time you feel like trying the hottest, coolest whatever. But : rebooting all the time is ``too much work'' for a lot of people.. You have a point there, but I think one of my roommates got DOSEmu to successfully run Doom II. I'll have to check. This is a valid concern, though, not just because games are important to a lot of computer users, but because if DOSEmu can run some of today's popular games, it can run just about anything! -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu