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- From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:14 GMT
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- >(let's take book editing software for an example)
- >
- >FrameMaker: about $3000 (if I convert the swiss price to US$, might be
- > less in the US, however)
- >
- >You get almost the same under UNIX from
- >
- >Emacs & TeX: $0 (maybe you'll have to add media cost)
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- Give me a break. Try Unix Framemaker (about $3000) and Windows
- Aldus pagemaker + Aldus illustrator + (something else) for $900.00
- If you want free Emacs & TeX, there are free versions for the PC too.
- Or you can "roll your own" postscript. Or you can use the free wordprocessor
- (with graphics, fonts etc.) that comes free with Windows. Let's see you
- draw a picture in Emacs and paste it in.
-
- >Excel: well.... $500?
- >Perl: $0
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- Perl? Give me a break...If you want free spreadsheets, OS/2 has one built
- in too. And there is also perl for OS/2 (and DOS).
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