[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-dHm4fvCby3gD at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
> 	"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:16:39 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
>> <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, if BSD had the applications that are available for Windows. . . .
>> It has most of what I need and I have a Windows machine for the few 
>> occasions...just VNC into it.
> 
> Other than brand names, what applications does the Windows box offer
> that the BSD box doesn't?
> 
> bill
>  
> 

I'm not really familiar with the software available for BSD.

I use:
Family Tree Maker (genealogy)
GenSmarts (genealogy)
Roots Magic (Genealogy)
Bridge Baron V16.0.0 (Game)
Reflection 4  (VT100/VT240... emulation)
MS Office
Firefox browser
Thunderbird mail/news client
Quicken
Turbo-Tax
Motorola Phone Tools
HP ScanJet Software
Palm Desktop
and a few other odds'n ends.

And, I'm rather fond of the "click and drool" interface.

On other machines than my "desktop" I run VMS, Solaris (SPARC), and RHEL 
V-4.  I use whichever one will do what I want with the least effort on 
my part.  Sometimes two or three machines and O/S get involved in a 
project; e.g. I'll move a genealogy report to a Solaris box and use gawk 
to pick out the the information I really wanted.