"howard schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > What am I missing about the need to rush to linux? What will I be missing > out on? > [...] I use the unix inspired troff (gnu version) with ghostscript > to send the HP printer language stuff to my inkjet. [...]
Howard, I think you just answered your own question! If you're doing everything you need to do satisfactorily with what you have, there's no "need" to do anything. However, as you have noted, Unix-based tools often do tasks simply and gracefully. In my case, I spent a lot of free time back in the late 1980's porting various Unix tools to DOS. When Linux became widely available, it was not so much a move away from DOS, as a transition to a similar environment that simply gave me more of what was appealing about DOS. In terms of being die-hards, DOS users are not unique. On another list I'm on, I posted asking who was still using other non-DOS/pre-Windows OSen, and there are still folks out there who use Apple II's and Commodore 64s for their everyday tasks. So really, if you're still finding you can do what you need within the DOS environment, there's no compulsion to change. On lower end hardware -- pre-386 or low memory systems especially, DOS will be pretty hard to beat. It's really a question of whether you've hit the wall or not. Just be comforted in knowing that there's a "bigger DOS" out there that can take advantage of all of today's hardware, while still giving much of the same "look and feel" (and control) that you find appealing about DOS. Oh, and it can still run much of the DOS software. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
