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Article #94Re: Geeky Question
From: Robert Hartley
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:00
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In article <8duk72$fea$1@kane.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, creech@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Angus Creech) wrote: > Robert Hartley (rh@mblab.gla.ac.uk) wrote: > : By Industry standard do you mean "spend a fortune because being left > : behind would be costly, only to find that bill has decreed a NEW INDUSTRY > : STANDARD and you are back to square one in 18 months"? > > Well, I meant industry standard in a "let's use Windows NT because everyone > else is using it, without actually seeing if there's a better > alternative" kind of a way. Exactly. But consider this. I have and Intel StrongARM processor running RISC OS via ROM chip and a Pentium as a floating point and for running multitasking OS's Win95 see:- http://www.aleph1.co.uk/AcornProd/docs/manuals/PC/index.html :-)))) The win95 is now obsolete due to Industry standard being forced into Win2K. :-(( However NEW RISC OS apps will run on my nephews RISC OS 3.1 1993 25Mhz machine and my StrongARM RISC OS4 machine (OK I have only 3.7 just now 4 is in the box) My WP app will read/write Word Stat Stationary Postscript (any app can be postscript saved via the PS driver in the priner or using RiScript) All the fonts are anti-aliased > > It's quite depressing the way Microsoft runs its business. Quite often > you can feel yourself being shoe-horned into using their products > because there is simply no alternative; the Internet Explorer Windows > integratrion issue was just the half of it. Office 2000 and > Internet Information Server are prime examples of how business > engineering can corner a market. There are alternatives. You can use WINE for Linux and run MS apps as if you had Windows. Browser: Mozilla or Opera for PC/mac/Linux is 4X the speed of IE. Stats 1st stats far better than excel or minitab for stats. Mathematica ScionImage for PC www.scioncorp.com or NIH for mac/linux. Excel is nice though. Probably the best spreadsheet about. Credit where it is due. etc etc Personally I use:- MessengerPro Impression Publisher Artworks (now called corel9) OvationPro EasiwriterPro ANT suite ARCFAX Organiser 1st stats Eureka3 etc etc etc IE none are microsoft but all can read/write files that are interchangeable. I use the MS side of my computer for Acrobat reader and for Scion Image and thats all. Mind you I dont have shareholders. :-))))))) Cheers Bob -- Robert Hartley, Centre for Cell Engineering,University of Glasgow,UK. mail: rh@mblab.gla.ac.uk, Tel: ++44 (0)141 330 4756 Web : http://www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/CellEngineering
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e553,743a8df12a9ee3c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e553,public X-Google-Thread: 109765,743a8df12a9ee3c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109765,public From: rh@mblab.gla.ac.uk (Robert Hartley) Subject: Re: Geeky Question Date: 2000/04/23 Message-ID: <rh-2304002135370001@a6-curtis.ibls.gla.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 614736766 References: <8cib5p$fo9$1@rairidh.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <38ECBCAC.B5B69D1C@glg.ed.ac.uk> <8cifj0$fo9$2@rairidh.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <5915@purr.demon.co.uk> <8ckl1a$4m5$1@rairidh.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <slrn8f0rem.ncb.charlie@pc.antipope.org> <8cs2im$90t$1@rairidh.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <slrn8f6shn.6ai.charlie@pc.antipope.org> <8d1e9t$o6b$1@rairidh.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <rh-2104001845450001@a6-curtis.ibls.gla.ac.uk> <8duk72$fea$1@kane.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Centre for Cell Engineering Newsgroups: eduni.general,ed.general