Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:11:35 -0700 From: Don Wilde <Don@PartsNow.com> To: Michael Daniel Wolfe <mw0102@cnsvax.albany.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD Message-ID: <33627D97.7E67@PartsNow.com> References: <01BC5259.7E1E1940@h41.oneida.albany.edu>
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I have a legacy copy of Word that I still use on my W95 slice. There is a program by Applixware for $199 which runs on FBSD (although it's made for Linux) which is a full office suite comparable to Office. The company is also making a Java-only version, but I hear it's slower. There are always going to be things like games and such which you can only get to work with WinXX; but I'll compare the freeware solutions of UNIX quite favorably with the $$ products of WinXX. If you are a student of computing or engineering, I would highly recommend FreeBSD as a learning/working environment. You can get under the hood! A personal history: When everybody else around me was buying Apple][ machines and playing games and Visicalc, I bought an Intel SDK86 single-board trainer. The most complex game I had was Lunar Lander, but, I learned enough from the assembly language and hardware experience to start getting salary jobs (equivalent to an EE level) programming distributed microcontrollers for cruise missile assembly lines. FreeBSD is the same kind of learning tool; the comparison is apt. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
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