Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:02:28 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000815184742.68978B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20000815174706.A40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > 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? > EDA - electronic design whatever. mostly boils down to designing chips and pcbs and similar. GIS - geographical information service or somesuch. Maps in computers and data systems relating to these maps. > And why is Sun better for CAD, anyway? Can't NT or M$ do just as well? 1) Major CAD software houses have supported Sun systems for a long time - they stoped releasing new versions for SunOS 4.1.x just last year or so. Hence they have lot's of experience 2) Likewise, as computers that could run MS anything and at the same time be even remotedly usable for CAD are a new thing, most of old users already have lot's of experience with non-x86 platforms 3) Sun natively supports XWindows, while in the case of WinNT (very few serious software supports Win95/98) you need to run an Xserver on top of Windows native graphics API. 4) Sun (ok, unix) machine groups are much nicer to administer than MS machine groups > And is there really that much of a demand for esoteric uses such as these? > Esoteric? There is nothing esoteric about that. > | These are, of course, but stereotypes. Note that Digital and IBM are left > | out. > > Why? > Beacuse I don't know of special stereotypes for those. > > 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
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