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From: ashelton@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (A Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 7 Feb 1997 01:54:09 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Frederick Haab <"haab.."@efx7.turner.com (remove .. to reply)> writes:
>Alex Yung wrote:
>> Bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) wrote:
>> : In article <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org>, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
>> : | Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about?
>> : | Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications?
>> : People who think {vi,emacs}+{groff,TeX} are a word processor should
>> : not quit their day job to sell UNIX word processing to the masses.
>> : The same is true for sc as a modern spreadsheet.
Wordperfect, which must be the most popular after Word, has been running
on Linux for some time. I imagine it runs on other Unix's as well. There
are also more modern spreadsheets. Additionally there are commercial
office suites available.
This is about as logical as my flaming NT for only having edlin.
>This is basically true...but why? It doesn't have to be this way!
>> It is meant for mission critical processes.
Some people consider there regular work to be mission critical :)
>> Each OS addresses certain need for certain population.
>> I don't think we would want to have one OS for everyone. Isn't this
>> monoploy which no one wants anyway?
What would be ideal would be a market in which software and system
services where broadly portable amongst as many OS's as people
cared to support. Unfortunately this is patently not the vision
that MS holds dear.
>I ask again, why do I have to boot my computer into a different
>O.S., or run some O.S. emulator, just to type a stinking letter
>on a nice word processor? It makes no sense when we say how
>much better Unix is than DOS/Windows, and then use DOS/Windows
>to do our mundane day to day business.
No sense at all..but MS apps are a vital part of their monopoly.
However the new Corel office thing should work on both platforms
which should make things interesting.
I know people have been playing with it under Linux.
--
It's not a computer, it's a 50MHz Linux Prayer Wheel..
Andrew Shelton s9406182@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
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