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Date:      Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:18:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        dosagie <dosagie@ccac-art.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I really need your advice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804221258.1618D-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35C6F28D.374F9087@ccac-art.edu>

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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, dosagie wrote:

>Hello!
>I am currently enrolled in a computer System Analysis class part two.
>I need your quick expert opinion to help me complete a class project.
>
>I am trying to recommend to the Architecture department  where I work to
>add UNIX with low cost  IBMs with your free BSD operating system.
>
>I want  some of  these IBMs to have NT Windows installed on some of
>them.  My goal is to help students in  the Architecture department  get
>hands on experience with these other platforms.  Our classes at the
>college currently are only Macintosh based.

You can certainly do this at low cost with FreeBSD.

>I need to know if this version of Unix is compatable with various
>Computer Aided Programs (CAD) and rendering software.  If so, which
>ones?
>We at the college use Form•Z, MiniCAD, Vellum,  LightScape and Electric
>Image.  Can this version of UNIX run these programs?

To be sure contact the vendors of those software. None of these that I
know of work under FreeBSD or Linux.

>What do you think?

>I also do not have a lot of time to continue collecting this information
>so please help me by responding as quickly as you can.  It will be
>greatly appreciated.

Alot of people don't have a lot of time to collect information, myself
included. Comments like this are not appreciated by just about everyone on
the net. Use better "netiquette" for better responses.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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