Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:55:06 -0700 From: "Roger A. Lowe" <rlowepe@nwlink.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: What are you? Message-ID: <000701bd6fa1$bd3c37e0$e18514d1@rlowepe>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I have been using a computer as a productivity tool for 20 years. Most of the time it has been a benefit. I am newly a user of the internet, and stumbled on to you through a link from Washingtion University. For years I have been frustrated with Microsoft DOS, and what seems to me to be unnecessary complexity and obscurity. If I understand what I am reading, Unix is a generic name for a group of operating systems that does very much the same thing as MSDOS. You are a volunteer organization that is maintaining and developing a comprehensive form of Unix. Am I right so far? Next, I gather that at least in your opinion, FreeBSD Unix is more stable, and more flexible than MSDOS, Windows etc. Am I still on target? Finally, am I to understand that FreeBSD is compatible with any intel cpu compatible computer, and with the existing internet, WWW or similar computer interconnectivity systems? I hope all this is true. Maybe we do not have to be dependent on Microsoft after all. You would be very kind to respond to all this. Thank you in advance. Roger Lowe rlowepe@main.net [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I have been using a computer as a productivity tool for 20 years. Most of the time it has been a benefit. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I am newly a user of the internet, and stumbled on to you through a link from Washingtion University. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For years I have been frustrated with Microsoft DOS, and what seems to me to be unnecessary complexity and obscurity. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>If I understand what I am reading, Unix is a generic name for a group of operating systems that does very much the same thing as MSDOS. You are a volunteer organization that is maintaining and developing a comprehensive form of Unix. Am I right so far?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Next, I gather that at least in your opinion, FreeBSD Unix is more stable, and more flexible than MSDOS, Windows etc. Am I still on target?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Finally, am I to understand that FreeBSD is compatible with any intel cpu compatible computer, and with the existing internet, WWW or similar computer interconnectivity systems?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I hope all this is true. Maybe we do not have to be dependent on Microsoft after all. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>You would be very kind to respond to all this. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you in advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Roger Lowe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>rlowepe@main.net</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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