Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:43:48 -0700 > Subject: Re: LUG via Mac's and Windows...PLEASE <snip> ... > I use Windows NT and Eudora Pro 3.0. Hendrik's swedish & german arrived > perfectly. Perhaps you should switch... Hi - I was NOT writing for myself. I can do it. I was thinking of the people in the world who are still using the equivalent of DOS 3.0 - and believe me, there are lots. > Wolfe, does the word "snob" come across as readable? How much did you pay > for "your" Unix machine? Oh, it's not yours? It belongs to the university? Ben, I tried to sensitize the LUG to people who might enjoy reading the posts but don't have the latest technology on their desktops. As to your remark: I love my work and so I do it for 12-16 hours/day and I buy all the computing power I need for my research. The university has NOT bought me a single computer in the past 27 years. > ... Unix, you'll find has not kept up with the advances > that the rest of us dummies enjoy. Like I wrote: The analogy between Leica M and Point+Shoot camera fits pretty well except that UNIX can in fact be made to look like the stuff that a lot of people are using but it's usually not worth the trouble. It would be like installing auto-focus in an M6 - you gain something but you loose a lot more! 'Have a nice day. -- Wolfgang __________________________________________________________________________ | Wolfgang Sachse Phone: +1/607/255-5065 | | T&AM/Thurston Hall; Cornell Univ E-mail: sachse@msc.cornell.edu | | Ithaca, NY - 14853-1503 USA FAX: +1/607/255-9179 | | WWW Home Page http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse | | | |_Comedy Improv at its best * "The Whistling Shrimp" * Sat 8pm Barnes Hall_|