Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!veritas!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends Message-ID: <1990Nov16.011444.26254@amd.com> Date: 16 Nov 90 01:14:44 GMT References: <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com> <1990Nov15.191312.13301@amd.com> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18 In article steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes: |Well, we paid exactly nothing for the MIT X distribution plus the |stuff that's been posted to comp.sources.x. That's 280MB of SOURCE Hm, do they have drivers for my Orchid Prodesigner II Super VGA card? What about a Sigma Two Page Display? An NEC Graphics accelerator? IBM XGA? |Of course, if you're willing to *pay* for applications, there's almost |no limit to what you can get. Most major PC applications are |available on Unix, plus some others. Of course, they generally cost Not only do they cost more, they are usually not very interesting applications. They run in ASCII terminal mode. Pretty primitive after you've used Microsoft Windows. -- KristallNacht: why every Jew should own an assault rifle.