6 May
2002
6 May
'02
3:38 p.m.
I'm game ... where's the pitch/doc located?
more below...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor
I don't have any version of WIndows after Win98SE. That's what I got at
the
thrift store for $3. It happens it was for a Winbook, which it happens I own,
though it makes no difference. The Works was on the HDD on that P166 I got
last week. I don't have the distribution media for it, though I have snagged
distribution diskettes for Works in the sealed packs from DELL computers by
the handful.
I notice you've danced around it but haven't simply pointed at a URL or
named
an application suite. Is there some reason why people aren't flocking to this
the way they did to the original Windows? I remember the day Win3.11 came
out, there was a long line at the local CompUSA with people wanting to buy the
latest-greatest. I just wanted to get some diskette labels, but thought
better of it.
Is that Open Office suite a complete set of software with the same sorts of
object oriented features as are included with the MSOFFICE suite? I've
learned over time to do some pretty handy things in Word, linked to Excel
graphics through a database in Access. It would be painful to go back to doing
that stuff manually.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
go
----- Original Message -----
From: "James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org>
> > Anyone who can install Windows
> > out of the box can just as easily install Solaris or Redhat or OS/X or
> > whatever and go straight to work on spreadsheets, documents, databases,
> > or whatever with as much ease, if not more, as with Windows.
> >
> Perhaps, but at what cost? (retail prices, since not everybody wants to dumpster
diving for hardware/software?)
A hell of a lot less than it costs to do that in Windows. Yes, Dick,
I know you only paid $3 for Windows XP and Works 2000. I paid less than
that for the same functionality. We're talking list-price-against-list,
or going-rate-against-going-rate. NOT your-finds-against-list-price.
OpenOffice v1.0 was just released. That's the OpenSource (free, to
you) follow-on to StarOffice 6.0. IOW, all the above for all the above
OS's for $0. MS-format compatible documents, spreadsheets, and
presentation app. Plus a lot more.
DO these app's share data so you can link from a form letter to a
corresponding database that links to several spreadsheets? That's a handy
function that's difficult to do without.
Most Linux distributions come with gnumeric (Excel-compatible
spreadsheet), several WYSIWYG text editors, and a multitude of database
systems.
> Well, I'd be last to deny that Windows is a pain in the glueteus maximus,
but
> if there were anything better, or even remotely
comparable, for the
"typical"
home user,
don't you think someone would think to mention it?
As in "get a clue"? You can lead a horse to water....