Re: What use can i give to linux?

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Subject: Re: What use can i give to linux?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:38:50 -0700
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On 4/5/24 12:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
. . .

Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a
user wants to run. . . .

Indeed. Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000,with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever: Xerox Ventura Publisher(DOS/GEM Edition) is *still* my typesetting software of choice, and Istill use WordPerfect 5.1+ and Quattro Pro SE.

And as to Ventura and WordPerfect, well, Corel can go to . . . (rhymeswith Corel), for turning perfectly good DOS apps into bad, bloated,WinDoze apps.


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JHHL

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