From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:58:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB80B37BDEB for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:58:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA52064; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:56:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:56:58 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: j mckitrick Cc: David Kelly , narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000815185045.K40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: :On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:18:37PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: :| Microsoft would have the world to believe NT is just as good as Unix. :| But those I have known who spend their careers on CAD workstations have :| learned to leverage the tool nature of Unix and minimize the grunt work. : :So even the GUI apps and CAD exhibit the same properties of Unix, in being made :up of small components that work together? This means they function :inherently different than windows counterparts? Even if the applications are monolithic, it's very nice to be able to do things like run sed and awk against various files. Microsoft No Tools makes that much harder. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message