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Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser

From "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser
Date 2015-02-05 21:10 +0000
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on 05/02/2015 15:25:46,  wrote:
> Bill Fruitmaker <fruitbill@what.com> writes:
>>On 2015-02-04, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> In the case of Unix, the basic interface was designed by Ken Thompson,
>>>> who was (and may still be) pretty good at such things, so the Unix
>>>> interface had higher technical merit than the competing OSs had
>>
>>That's a tough sell. We would have to know which ones you're talking about
>>because from here it looks very much like UNIX won because it is free as in
>>beer.
> 
> You mean, they added Unix interfaces rather than, say OS/360, RSX-11
> or VMS interfaces to, e.g., Domain/OS, Mach or L4, because you believe
> that Unix was distributed at zero cost? According to
> <ftp://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/licenses.html> even educational
> licenses incurred a non-zero cost, although it was not much; I doubt
> it was much different for other operating systems of that time, just
> like today.
> 
> If there is a non-technical reason, it's rather that AT&T had no
> hardware of its own to sell, and it was willing to license Unix to
> hardware vendors like Sun, HP, Apollo, etc., while licensing VMS was
> probably not deemed a good business move both by DEC and by the other
> hardware manufacturers, both out of fear of strengthening their
> competition.
> 
>> If that doesn't convince you then Linux should.
> 
> Convince me of what?
> 
>>> Desktops no longer require an OS with Word-like applications and files.
>>> An example is Office 365; Microsoft's cloud based replacement (at least
>>> in the long term) for Word, Outlook email and so on.
> 
> There are still OSs needed for that.  Office 365 does not run on bare
> hardware.  Indeed it needs an OS on the clients and an OS on the
> server, and more rather than less system services than an office suite
> needed originally.

Yes, I meant Windows OS. Office 365 will run on phones that run iOS or
Android.

> 
> - anton

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I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 22:14 -0800
  Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> - 2015-02-01 08:02 +0000
    Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-01 15:46 +0000
  Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-01 15:33 +0000
    Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 08:23 -0800
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-02 17:30 +0000
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-02 10:47 -0800
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-02 19:09 +0000
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> - 2015-02-03 00:05 +0000
  Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-02 08:02 -0800
    Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 08:22 -0800
    Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-02 19:36 +0000
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-02 12:37 -0800
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-04 15:08 +0000
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-04 16:41 +0000
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Bill Fruitmaker <fruitbill@what.com> - 2015-02-04 17:02 +0000
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-04 17:14 +0000
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-04 10:17 -0800
                Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-02-04 10:29 -0800
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-02-04 20:44 +0000
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-05 15:25 +0000
                Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-05 21:10 +0000
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-02-02 14:03 -0800
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-02 22:09 +0000
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-02-02 15:27 -0800
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-03 00:43 +0000
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-03 12:34 +0000
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-04 19:29 -0800
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-02-05 04:44 +0100
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-02-04 21:44 -0800
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-02-08 18:41 +0000
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-02-02 23:14 +0100
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-03 12:31 +0000
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-03 12:37 +0000
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-03 12:55 +0000
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-03 10:49 -0800
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-03 19:31 +0000
  Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, butforthos has no chrome web browser "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-02-07 17:55 +1100
    Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, butforthos has no chrome web browser the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2015-02-06 23:51 -0800
      Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-02-08 15:35 +1100
        Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-07 20:58 -1000
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-08 13:19 +0000
          Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-02-08 20:23 +0100
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-02-08 14:12 -0800
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-02-09 00:23 +0100
            Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-02-11 11:16 +1100
              Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc,butforthos has no chrome web browser Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-02-11 02:48 +0100
  Re: I would love to switch from freebsd to forth running my pc, but forthos has no chrome web browser the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2015-02-07 00:00 -0800

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