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	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
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On 9 Jun 1996, Jim Stafford wrote:

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> Sean Aschen (aschen@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
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> : >> Keep dreaming ....
> : > PC's dream of being Macs when their owners turn them off at nite.  Macs
> : >rule the net, and DTP, and Graphics, and soon business...and there won't
> : >be anyplace left for the PCs but the toilet.....

Appearantly you haven't seen the latest statistics from Web Crawler.  Unix
dominates the server market, Windows 3.1 still refuses to let go of the
Browser market, and Linux is coming up from nowhere fast.

> : They've been saying this for 10+ YEARS!  I have yet to see a change.

About 12 actually.  I remember when I first started using a Mac.  During
one of it's 2 hour reboots, I wandered into the computer room to gawk at a
Sun/1.  It was amazing.  It was doing all the fun things the Mac did, but
doing several different things in several different windows, all at the
same time.  At $30,000 each, I wasn't planning on one for home real soon.

The first time I saw Linux fully configured, the guy had put Xview up.  It
looked like a Sun, but everything was moving so fast.  It was Linux, on a
Pentium 66 (floating point glitch and all).  When he handed me the CD and
said "try it out", I hesitantly followed the instructions and had it up
and running in few hours (though I did get stuck in the X11
configuration).  Even my lowly 386/25 could run it and out run a Sparc-10.
When they sent mey my "upgrade" machine, I kept the old machine and ran
it on the side.  I even put X11 on my "Upgrade" so that I could access the
Linux box from MS-Windows.  That was sweet.

> : You will soon be relegated to the fate of the Amiga user, buying
> : softare from the bargain bin, with your only recourse being
> : mail-order.  Oh.. but you LIKE mail-order software.

Used to get Linux Mail-order, now I can get it from the back of a
paperback book.  Pretty soon, they'll be shrink-wrapping it in Magazines
along with sample copies of Netscape Browser, Fastrack Server, and
connectivity to the Internet Via MCI.  When you've got Linux, you don't
need much of an ISP.

> I like mail-order stuff better! Especially when the the shipping is 
> overnight air for $3.00 and I don't have to pay the sales tax!

Why wait for overnight.  An ISDN modem can give me the entire Slackware or
Red Hat distribution in less than 1 hour.

> Apple and Linux GUI's are better,

Apple is great, but Linux does it in Stereo (or Quadrephenia for that
matter).

> jamess
> 

	Rex.


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