Re: Why I Support Microsoft

On 12/29/97 6:47 AM, Patrick May (pjm@spe.com)  passed this wisdom:

>     Okay, so I'm a UNIX-head; I forgot about the Macs (a dangerous
>thing to do, given the ferocity of their supporters).  If the
>government were to adopt my suggestion, two major results would be:
>
>     - The third party market for Linux software would grow rapidly
>       and enormously.
>     - The government's software budget would be reduced dramatically.

 that's OK, we Mac-heads have MacLinkPlus translators, we just get em to 
write another half dozen or so  translators for Linux and Linux file 
system recognitions to the OS, no big deal ... we have always prided 
ourselves that MacOS often reads and processes Windoze documents better 
than WinDoze does ...

Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr
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  "In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a
   direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the
   general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature." 
       -- Edmund Burke

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In <199712291701.MAA16873@mx01.together.net>, on 12/29/97 
   at 12:01 PM, "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net> said:

> that's OK, we Mac-heads have MacLinkPlus translators, we just get em to 
>write another half dozen or so  translators for Linux and Linux file 
>system recognitions to the OS, no big deal ... we have always prided 
>ourselves that MacOS often reads and processes Windoze documents better 
>than WinDoze does ...

Hey now that's OS/2 line: "A Better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than
Windows" :))

Right now I am playing with a program called Executor which allows me to
run Mac software on my Intell box. Linux is not a problem as most of the
Linux programs have been ported over to OS/2 using EMX/GCC (my current CLI
is more *nix like than it is OS/2-DOS like). Even XFree86 has been ported
over.

There is even a Win32 project going on to allow the running of Win95/NT
programs under OS/2 (if anyone would *want* to run that crap).

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