Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Prodigy on VPIX? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 02:32:32 GMT References: <6062@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <1324@lemuria.MV.COM> <1990Jul28.202436.17195@dynsim2.uucp> <1990Jul29.051118.4963@pcrat.uucp> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 10 In article <1990Jul29.051118.4963@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >My reaction was to toss Prodigy. It got three strikes against >it: wouldn't work under VP/ix, no Trailblazer dialins, and you >couldn't capture stock quotes. Outta there. Yeah, too oppresive, too closed, too much advertising, too slow. The Clarinet service, the PC-based version of Quottrek (sp?) and similar things are, I think, more the way to go, because you can receive the stuff without human intervention and manipulate the results with programs, etc, rather than just printing it out. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave uunet!sugar!karl until I get my raincoat back." -- Metrophage