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In <41mhp4$4h6@news1.deltanet.com> xenon@deltanet.com () writes: 

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>The ravine separating UNIX and {DOS, Windoze, MAC} users cannot be
>easily traversed. It is true that apps for Windows and MAC are very
>easy to use. However, it is only in the last two years that either of
>these have become "formable." ("Formable" meaning apps that can be
>significantly altered by the user.) Unfortunately, these are still not
>nor will they will be formable at source level. (Although Word and
>Excel users insist that the provisions for alterations via built-in VB
>constitute "aletrations" at source level. Apple Scriptors will insist
>the same.)
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How "formable" are commercial Unix apps?  How much can you alter the
source of, say, FrameMaker, ProEngineer, the Sun development tools, or
SGI's rendering tools?

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>The truth is that Windows is not truly a multitasking
>environment and never will be. Now, presumably, you have 95. Try
>running two concurrent FTP sessions, each to a different host.
>

Even though I love Linux and will continue using it every day, there's
no need for these clearly false statements.  Win95 *is* a preemptive
multitasking system, although some older 16-bit apps may hinder its
multitasking performance.  At least MS makes no false claims about
that; it says so right on the box.  When you run only 32-bit apps, its
preemptive multitasking is quite good.  And NT's multitasking is
excellent.  As far as having two FTP sessions to different hosts going
on at the same time, this is trivial, and I used to do this all the
time under Windows 3.1.  *You* obviously have never tried it.

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>xenon
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Jerry
jjs@ix.netcom.com