Re: Why I Support Microsoft
On 12/29/97 6:47 AM, Patrick May (pjm@spe.com) passed this wisdom:
Okay, so I'm a UNIX-head; I forgot about the Macs (a dangerous thing to do, given the ferocity of their supporters). If the government were to adopt my suggestion, two major results would be:
- The third party market for Linux software would grow rapidly and enormously. - The government's software budget would be reduced dramatically.
that's OK, we Mac-heads have MacLinkPlus translators, we just get em to write another half dozen or so translators for Linux and Linux file system recognitions to the OS, no big deal ... we have always prided ourselves that MacOS often reads and processes Windoze documents better than WinDoze does ... Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature." -- Edmund Burke
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199712291701.MAA16873@mx01.together.net>, on 12/29/97 at 12:01 PM, "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net> said:
that's OK, we Mac-heads have MacLinkPlus translators, we just get em to write another half dozen or so translators for Linux and Linux file system recognitions to the OS, no big deal ... we have always prided ourselves that MacOS often reads and processes Windoze documents better than WinDoze does ...
Hey now that's OS/2 line: "A Better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows" :)) Right now I am playing with a program called Executor which allows me to run Mac software on my Intell box. Linux is not a problem as most of the Linux programs have been ported over to OS/2 using EMX/GCC (my current CLI is more *nix like than it is OS/2-DOS like). Even XFree86 has been ported over. There is even a Win32 project going on to allow the running of Win95/NT programs under OS/2 (if anyone would *want* to run that crap). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNKfbQ49Co1n+aLhhAQHkKwP/QIEDi8wVopjAhO131nCZxRTYyK18U1la 2EUg1nbo5Co98U1YVpXqYjIbRAs6KViHRiscGjxEIgXV8ril2vyYA0r827lZTPYu ES2PZGbUmT4PHBvEDNeSbHJBfTFmOYH4q8badFW8xZBsvaKatnxDiA0qO/9S9/bI vs7ikDY81/o= =9aHv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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