From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:18:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E5537B672 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7FHIbb13082; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:18:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:18:37 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick writes: > | 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? Electronic Design and Automation Geographical Information System > And why is Sun better for CAD, anyway? Can't NT or M$ do just as well? Its an area Sun and Unix got a solid foothold before Microsoft's nose was able to smell $. Microsoft would have the world to believe NT is just as good as Unix. But those I have known who spend their careers on CAD workstations have learned to leverage the tool nature of Unix and minimize the grunt work. And when one spends over $50k per seat one has the right to expect higher quality than Microsoft delivers. NT's "we know better than you" GUI doesn't cut the mustard. > And is there really that much of a demand for esoteric uses such as these? The EDA market is huge. It doesn't take very many $50k seats (software only) before it adds up. The shrinkwrap schematic and PCB portion is only a small slice of the EDA pie. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message