On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> "Unix" is insufficiently precise, especially if you're talking about a
> commercial product distributed in binary form.  Is that SGI unix, SUN
> unix, HP unix, Alpha unix, Linux, or BSD?  (and people wonder why more
> stuff isn't available for unix - it's a can of worms, that's why!)

You should know, I understand that your company delivers most of its
products with a Unix-like OS pre-installed ;) So it may be a can of worms,
but it does not stink so bad and one needs worms to bait big fish <g>

The real reason more Unix stuff isn't available is, imho, that the people
who wrote Unix apps. targeted the big fish audience, and are reluctant to
downgrade to the current small fish market. This is changing however with
Unixish OSs workable on every PC. I'm looking in the ad section in Byte
magazine and there is a LOT of stuff that is also available for Unix. No
fancy screensavers though, but I make my own with PoV-RAY (on Unix, or
almost). hehehe.

Peter