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To: E. Charters who wrote (612)	11/20/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2615

"As far as importation goes I have Word 6.0 and there is patch for not being able to import word 7.0 documents there either" SHOULD read: "As far as importation goes I have Word 6.0 and there is NO patch for being able to import word 7.0 or 8.0 documents there either." (Not mention *.wpf or Wordstar or JEPGS or PNG's or much HTML.) :) EC<:-}

To: E. Charters who wrote (612)	11/20/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

I've used acceleratedX for years, 4 plus I think, I believe it eliminates 99.9% of all X window problems. I don't know what the other .1% are, but I haven't stumbled across them yet. My systems work for days and days and the X never crashes. I used AcceleratedX on several video cards, But 97% of my experience is with matox millenium cards. I never built a system now without linux, AcceleratedX and matrox millenium 8 meg video cards. Hey I just bought 15 at aution for 39 bucks a piece. I currently work on a dual display system. Maybe this weekend I'll build me a four display system. Damn, I need more pci slots. My trident cards, ati pro turbo, whatever are all on the shelf gettin dusty. For more of my experience with applixware, Every doc file I've downloaded off the web imported seemlessly. All the word excell and power point files emailed to me where I work also imported seemlessly. I find the word part not feature rich, but I'm a poor feature kind of guy when it comes to word processing. But I'm socially redeemed by being a hardware excellence analphile.

To: E. Charters who wrote (612)	11/21/1998 3:07:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Of course I'm always happy for improvements, but I think you may have a rather unusual situation in your valient battles with X (as documented on this thread). Like Thomas, I have not experienced these lockups/crashes with X. There is an occasional netscape crash, but it just disappears and I can start it right back up. (Makes me wonder if this wasn't a feature to prevent excess memory leaks...) I use the XFree86 server, but I've never had a problem with my Matrox cards (Millenium or Mystique). I've also had no problems with my ATI card, but I haven't used it enough to give it a good review. Perhaps you just have a problem with either your hardware or configuration that is causing your disillusionment with the X architecture. Sure X is complex and hard to set up, but it's also very powerful and versatile. You can customize the living shit out of it and run it transparently over the network. What more could you ask for? It is a bitch to program to, but you can utilize one of the easy-to-use toolkits to help out there. (GTK is fairly straightforward). Plus most of the toolkits are cross-platform. Original criticisms of X were that it took way too much CPU and memory. This was true at the time. However, now hardware has caught up so that X can actually feel 'zippy'. "All we are saying... is give X a chance." - John Linux