Re: Looking for sites using DECathena

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From: John Hascall
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 04:55

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(Bill Willis) willis@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
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}|>4. What don't you like about it?

}The biggest complaint by far has nothing to do with Athena. Since we run Unix
}machines, we cannot run common programs like Microsoft Word/Excel etc... This
}causes more problems than anything else.

   Of course, there's always SoftPC at ~$500/seat...
   ...talk about not scaling well!

John
-- 
John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551

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Subject: Re: Looking for sites using DECathena
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