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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:56:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net>, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000815125543.64412C-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000815185045.K40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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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



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