From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 9:47:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E531537BD1E for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13Ojrm-0001P8-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:47:06 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA40107; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:47:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:47:06 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Narvi Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815174706.A40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000815163646.A39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 06:39:58PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 06:39:58PM +0200, Narvi wrote: | CAD. Lot's of CAD packages are for solaris first and then maybe for some | other OS. And many other things. | | The stereotypical unix worstation uses are: | * SUN - cad/eda | * HP - GIS and similar | * SGI - scientific visualisation CAD i know, but what are EDA and GIS? And why is Sun better for CAD, anyway? Can't NT or M$ do just as well? And is there really that much of a demand for esoteric uses such as these? | These are, of course, but stereotypes. Note that Digital and IBM are left | out. Why? jm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~ jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message