From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 09:21:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA15399 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 09:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kinsey.fia.net (root@kinsey.fia.net [199.172.120.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15391 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 09:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonessr.calypso.com (ts2p8.fia.net [199.172.120.153]) by kinsey.fia.net (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA01707 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 09:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <318A325A.6736@mail.fia.net> Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 09:20:42 -0700 From: Eric Jones Organization: A2Z Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: BSD to Irix X-URL: http://www.freebsd.com/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a graphic artist and seriously discontent with the kind of performance I get out of my PC. I've considered using BSD, but my biggest question is compatability and being able to get my files output to common things like an imagesetter, etc. If I install BSD to my system, do I have to find a service bureau with a system with BSD as well, or can other DOS/Windows/SGI systems read my disks? Eric Jones