Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread David C. Brown N2RJT
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Martin Vermeer wrote: > I don't know about the PDP-10, but the PDP-11 is *very* well known to me. > > PDP-7 (quite different architecture) was one of the three original machines > that Unix was written for. > > PDP-11/10 was my first "personal computer" here at the institu

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> I don't know about the PDP-10, but the PDP-11 is *very* well Martin> known to me. Martin> PDP-7 (quite different architecture) was one of the three Martin> original machines that Unix was written for. You are right, of course

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Fre, 29 Jan 1999 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: >jmarc jabbed, > > >> Amir> Do we know of a UNIX platform it *doesn't* run on? > >> PDP-10? > >did someone actually put unix on those? Yes, I think so - pure assembler. C was developed to port Unix to the PDP-11, IIRC :-) Greetings, Jochen

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Martin Vermeer
> > "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> jmarc jabbed, > Amir> Do we know of a UNIX platform it *doesn't* run on? > > >> PDP-10? > > Richard> did someone actually put unix on those? > > I was under the impression that unix was developped for the PDP 1

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> jmarc jabbed, Amir> Do we know of a UNIX platform it *doesn't* run on? >> PDP-10? Richard> did someone actually put unix on those? I was under the impression that unix was developped for the PDP 10. But I might be w

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jmarc jabbed, > Amir> Do we know of a UNIX platform it *doesn't* run on? > PDP-10? did someone actually put unix on those? Hmm, there must be something besides tops-10 and -20, since someone is still selling clones . . . --

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I thought the idea was to rename egcs to gcc 2.9 or 3.0 or anything >> and continue with the egcs developping model. After all, the 'e' in >> egcs stands for 'experimental'. >> >> Do you have links about this? I found nothin

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I thought the idea was to rename egcs to gcc 2.9 or 3.0 or anything > and continue with the egcs developping model. After all, the 'e' in > egcs stands for 'experimental'. > > Do you have links about this? I found nothing on the egcs mailing lists. Yes, it seems you are right: http://www.cygn

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> Notice that gcc 2.9.0 will probably never come. egcs has Asger> overtaken the compiler area. There is no one working on gcc Asger> 2.8.x. I thought the idea was to rename egcs to gcc 2.9 or 3.0 or anything and continue

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Unfortunately the compiler I use most of the time is the one which is > installed here at work. Since this is installed for 150+ users, they > don't change compiler versions every week. We had 2.8.1 installed 2 > monthes ago, and this is already a good thing. When gcc 2.9.0 (or > whatever it's c

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I used to. Now that I have gcc 2.8.1 installed, I don't really feel >> like compiling a 70M binary again :) Asger> If you use gcc 2.8.1, you should know that the gcc line as such Asger> is dead. egcs has overtaken all gcc d

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I used to. Now that I have gcc 2.8.1 installed, I don't really feel > like compiling a 70M binary again :) If you use gcc 2.8.1, you should know that the gcc line as such is dead. egcs has overtaken all gcc development. Egcs v1.1 is supposedly better than gcc 2.8.1. Even RMS has expressed a w

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> We know of a few systems, where the provided compiler is not Asger> good enough. This includes systems with gcc 2.6.x, but also Asger> some of the proprietary ones. Jean-Marc is very helpful in Asger> compiling on DEC and

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> I'll just reregister my opinion that while open source is a Amir> great thing, it's not what we're selling here. We've mentioned Amir> that LyX (and latex) are open source. Linux et al. are doing Amir> just fine in the press and don't

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Yes, sorry LyX members. My email client sometimes encrypts messages when it's not appropriate. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:31:58PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > Your last message was PGP signed! > > -Amir

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
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Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> I'll just reregister my opinion that while open source is a great thing, > it's not what we're selling here. We've mentioned that LyX (and latex) are > open source. Linux et al. are doing just fine in the press and don't need > our PR help. "LyX runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and most proprieta

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD > > and most proprietary Unix systems. > > Having taken another look, the above might be

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD > and most proprietary Unix systems. Having taken another look, the above might better read: Lyx runs on the free, open source Unix platforms Linux, FreeBSD

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Martin Vermeer
> > "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Larry> Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- > > Isn't it a (partial) rewrite of Martin's latest?? > > I beginning to be lost in all these versions... > > JMarc It *was* a comment on my latest brainchild,

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- Isn't it a (partial) rewrite of Martin's latest?? I beginning to be lost in all these versions... JMarc

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > This looks good. I'd say I like it almost as much as Martin's > latest. > > JMarc >

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> I worked over the language. Hope this is helpful. Hi Larry, This looks good. I'd say I like it almost as much as Martin's latest. JMarc

Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-27 Thread Larry S. Marso
I worked over the language. Hope this is helpful. Public release of LyX version 1.0.0 === LyX, the Open Source Word Processor for Structured Documents LyX is an advanced, open source word processor for