From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:12:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B0F37B505 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13OkGJ-000Afv-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:12:28 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA40441; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:12:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:12:27 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Narvi Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815181227.F40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000815174706.A40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:02:28PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:02:28PM +0200, Narvi wrote: | EDA - electronic design whatever. mostly boils down to designing chips and | pcbs and similar. | 3) Sun natively supports XWindows, while in the case of WinNT (very few | serious software supports Win95/98) you need to run an Xserver on top of | Windows native graphics API. That's funny. The engineer in the office next to me develops XILINX on windows. | > And is there really that much of a demand for esoteric uses such as these? | > | | Esoteric? There is nothing esoteric about that. I guess what i meant was it seems this would be a very small niche for software, where the price per unit would have to be high to make a profit. Much like the discussion here a week or so ago about GUIs and apps in the movies versus real life. SOmeone said that some very technical software for niche markets is often simple text based because the development costs are prohibitively high. jm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~ jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message