Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!vandys From: vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Pity the poor 286 folk Message-ID: <10770001@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:38:28 GMT References: <9695@ico.ISC.COM> Sender: news@super.ORG Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 24 / hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) / 12:27 pm Sep 23, 1988 / In article <9695@ico.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: >... I wanna run MS-word! >... >"there is NO support for ANY kind of networking with V/AT!" Oh, come now. It isn't THAT bad! My wife is a writer and does just fine on our AT. Microemacs, configured to a 'T' for her, along with tpr (which I hacked to give her the features she wanted) seems to carry a pro- fessional writer pretty well. If her formatting needs ever get too fancy (she used to use Final Word II--she knows what she's missing, but doesn't seem to care yet) I'll take a look at migrating her to TeX, troff, ditroff, or something along those lines. There seem to be a LOT of options, even leaving out value-added sources like SCO's Lyrix package. I received an offer from uPort just a bit ago for a TCP/IP package. I'm not saying it worked, but I am saying I saw one for sale. For that matter, I believe KA9Q's TCP/IP package works fine over 802.3, so there might not be a need to go serial out of your AT. Worth looking into. Keep the faith! The resources available for a UNIX box are enormous--but sometimes they're a little hard to find. Good luck, Andy Valencia