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Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> In article <46nbnq$6n8@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>,
>    fabio3@ix.netcom.com (Fabio Iannelli ) wrote:
> =In <460a9s$6p5@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Xuelei Chen <xuelei> writes:
> =>
> =>Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:
> =>>you@somehost.somedomain (a) writes:
> =>>
> =>>>>1. Why people choic Linux or not the win95 ??
> 
> =>Well I certainly would install linux and like it , let me ask those people who
> =>only run linux but no windows, what word processing program do they run? Of
> =>course I know there are type setting programs like LaTeX, actually I used it a
> =>lot for preparing research papers, however, if what you want is just a letter,
> =>it is much easier to use a word processor. Are there any Word for Unix? Or
> =>should not it be included in the future linux software?
> 
> =For your information there is a Wordperfect port to Linux, and it works
> =fine.And what does judging an operating system have to do with
> =comparing Word processors anyways?
> 
> Availibility of programs has a big impact on what os you chose, DOS is an even
> bigger kludge because the designers wanted the backwards compatibility to cmp so
> that everyone wouldn't worry about software. look at winbloze95 backwards
> compatibility is there to make sure that everyone gets to use their favorite old
> progies. BTW i hate WP
> 
> +---------------------------+----------------------------+
> |  Q: How do we fix Win95?  |    amorton@accutek.com     |
> |       A: Delete it!       |  amorton@nsn.scs.unr.edu   |
> |Just Say No to Winbloze 95!|    IRC Nick: inspector     |
> +---------------------------+----------------------------+

You need backwars compatibility if the source code isnt' available and if
the formats produced by the packages you use are proprietary.  OK these are
advanced ideas (fact, not insult :) and people jsut didn't htink in these terms
up to a short while ago - or I live on a different planet :)

If you opt for open standards, backwards compatibility of packages is really
a non issue, as long as teh formats they produce are backwards compatible.

TeX is excellent because this was THE prime design requirement.

TeX is dated though. It doesn't compare to modern desktop word processors
in ease of ue.  fortunatly there is a solution here in the form of the free
GPLed program LyX, which is a WYSIWYG interface to TeX.  These two packages
work together in a very symbiotic way and it is really easy and productive tool.

Bye cos my computer is giving up ....
J