APPLEVISION Monitor, Anything !Windows = Cryptic ?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue May 7 11:36:09 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]

> However, I'm not
> so sure it's as trouble free when you want to use a single
> machine to do a
> multitude of widely varying things.

I find that very funny. I'm not going to argue with it right
now, though I don't agree, of course. It's amusing, though,
since it's the same argument that I often offer against windows.

:)

> What? Where's there a Windows emulator for Linux that runs
> MSOFFICE? Will,
> it at least, run CorelDRAW? How about the Xilinx Foundation

Years ago, I used to run CorelDRAW under wine -- this was before
windows 95, so it was the 3.1 version of CorelDRAW. It also ran
M$ works. I would be surprised if it didn't run some recent
version of office or Corel's suite.

> software, or
> ALtera's Maxplus-II?

Not sure about those.

> Why don't more people use it then? Is it because, unlike

Because they use windows instead -- the majority of them. If
they were used to using linux, and if linux had all of the
marketing momentum that windows had, they'd use it instead,
or if the Grundey corporation had given GrundeyOS the proper
marketing at the right time, they'd use that.

People use what you hand them. I'm not convinced that
popularity can be any indicator of quality. You only need
look at the high-quality products in any given market segment
to see that.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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