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Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Jeremy N. Cowgar
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:42
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In article <DDBFwE.8Kw@wombat.hanse.de>,
   root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) wrote:
>jeremyc@bbsone.com (Jeremy N. Cowgar) writes:
>
>>Also in X, lets say I do find an email program, now I want a Usenet program. 
I 
>>may find one of those even, but my Usenet program will work nothing like my 
>>email program. The only thing they have in common is that they can use the 
>>mouse, interfaces have changed, keyboard has changed (del/bksp/arrows/etc). 
>>Its just not an OS system that a person could use for a productive system.
>
>pine/elm. Or GNUS/whatever_mail_under_emacs_is_called. How about NetScape,
>doesn;t it have a mail reader in there, too? How about the Andrews message
>system?
>

The problem is that a mail reader is not the only program I need. What about a 
PIM, Dialer, WYSIWYG Word Processor, Database's, Organizer, Graphics Programs, 
etc. Thousands of things I use daily, I could not find for Linux.


	

Jeremy Cowgar
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 13:42:26 GMT
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