Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:50:13 -0500 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Slick-edit on FreeBSD - any takers? Message-ID: <199503251550.KAA16990@lakes>
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As it happens, the marketing person for Slick-Edit (a popular
PC editor) comes to my house every thursday (we started a
piano quintet..., but I digress.)
Interestingly enough, she was telling me that Linux is now one of their
most popular operating systems. I imagine a lot of DOS/Windows people
are moving to Linux...
Anyway, I put in a plug for FreeBSD. She indicated that it was the position
of the company to port SlickEdit to any operating system where they had
a request.
Personally, I'm a 'vi' bigot from way back; but I thought it would be
good exposure for FreeBSD, etc... (You may notice they list Linux in
some of the SlickEdit adds in Dr. Dobbs, etc...) So, I would like
a show of hands of people who would consider purchasing this, etc...
- Dave Rivers -
p.s. The Linux port doesn't use X - they just hired someone to do that
work for them... So, the initial FreeBSD version would probably
be curses, etc...
p.p.s. Send me mail (ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com for now) and I'll try
and tally this up. However, I have 2400+ pieces of mail (it's a long
story) so things might get lost. If you *really* would like to see
this, call the microEdge directly, at 1-800-934-EDIT (that's the Sales
line) and let them know.
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