From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 17 09:16:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20643 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:16:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20638 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@newman.concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely [207.155.184.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/08/04 5.11)) id MAA07883; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:16:45 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d45.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d45.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.57]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id MAA17528; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:16:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:16:54 -0700 (MST) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: Kevin Sheehan cc: "newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: vi & word documents In-Reply-To: <01BE29C7.7CF34120@fossil.planb.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >up with yet--the power in vi is intuitively obvious. > > Sorry, but I couldn't help but notice the Viewpoint / Globalview ref. It would be closer to the truth to say Xerox gave it away than had it stolen wouldn't it? Yes and no. They gave it away in the sense they didn't know what to _do_ with it, but they did try to protect themselves: The first lawsuit against the Mac folk they won by an out of court settlement for "an undisclosed sum." The second, jointly against $ms & ibm resulted in a ruling that it was now "in the public domain". > Do you still use it? It's a pitty MS and others didn't take more from it... makes me wish I still had a 6085 :-) Make me an offer :) The 6085 is in perfect working order save the 4045 thinks its out of paper and Xerox wants their normal fortune to tell it otherwise. Three of the main boards are practically new. ($150-$300, _not_ $3000) I've also got GVWin on CD, the ultimate surrender. (if there was ever a disgusting turn of events--that was it.) But, it loads up and runs fine as long as one knows the documentation contains roughly half of what's necessary and is accustomed to loading up Viewpoint. Send me a box of some kind with windows on it, and I'll load it up and send it back will all options but that "professional" drawing whatever its called. > > ... I'll let you get back to the vi discussion.... Starting to like this one better. Haven't met someone who knows what a 6085 is for a _long_ time. And a little bit of computer development history never hurt anybody. ML Duke > Rgs. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message