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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news From: Michael Andrew Iverson <iverson@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 09:30:56 -0500 Organization: OSU Electrical Engineering Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32F9EB20.7959@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leopard.eng.ohio-state.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/778) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156596 comp.os.linux.networking:67491 comp.os.linux.setup:95820 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5901 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2320 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52053 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266091 V.S. Senthilkumar wrote: > > Kaleb S. KEITHLEY (kaleb@osf.org) wrote: > : bill davidsen wrote: > : > > : > In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: > : > > : > | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about > : > | Microsoft desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and > : > | energy if he likes, but unix will die without applications. > : > > : > UNIX doesn't have applications. > > : Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about? > : Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications? > > : The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications. > : Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications. > > : There's plenty of applications for Unix. > > Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? > > -vs senthilkumar Wordperfect, StarOffice, and the Applixware Suite. Oh and TeX, when you want to write the serious stuff. -- | Michael Iverson (iverson@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu) | | Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University | | | | http://er4www.eng.ohio-state.edu/~iversonm/ |