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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:51:41 -0700
From:      Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: As usual, I disagree.
Message-ID:  <20011130165141.A41249@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <005101c179f1$248dda40$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:48:33PM %2B0100
References:  <15366.58396.746782.116282@guru.mired.org><036901c17949$335163b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.35596.70893.123850@guru.mired.org><03fa01c179ac$e85cdba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.40254.191788.665077@guru.mired.org><040c01c179b0$c01ff790$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.44663.511557.67023@guru.mired.org> <003801c179eb$2cd9ef00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011130151903.A40291@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <005101c179f1$248dda40$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:48:33PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Chad writes:
> 
> > Interesting, I've been using it on my desktop
> > for years.
> 
> Your application requirements are probably more circumscribed than most.

I don't know, I've gone from systems programmer to President and CEO of a
software company back to "retired" programmer without ever having a need
that AIX/Solaris/BSD couldn't fill (except maybe Starcraft for a while).
For example, it wasn't that long ago that WordPerfect was the desktop
standard, and it ran just fine on Unix.

> 
> > That hasn't really been true for 2-3 years.  Every
> > user I know can download things from the net... in
> > fact I sometimes wish they would forget!
> 
> They can download MP3s and games, but typically they don't know how to download
> or even how to find most other stuff.

What exactly is stuff?  If you can download an MP3 or games you should
be able to download anything else? 

-- 
Chad David        davidc@acns.ab.ca
ACNS Inc.         Calgary, Alberta Canada

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