dansimonm

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   by dansimonm 5y ago

   Me too :) I have played with various alternative OS'es, including Multics, in the hope that it could be added to the Haiku/Minoca section. But the OS has to be practical enough for casual use, and similar enough to UNIX to make a
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   by dansimonm 5y ago

   I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. There is no doubt that MS Office has more formatting finesse then troff. I did not mean to deny this, my point was simply that troff is good enough for many everyday needs, such as writing my
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   by dansimonm 5y ago

   Yes, you can do virtually everything mentioned in my blog with Emacs, especially since you can run almost any console command in it (also ncurses ones with M-x ansi-term). I deliberatley tried to avoid Emacs so as not to go to far of topic.
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   by dansimonm 5y ago

   Thanks for reading my blog :) There may indeed be quite a few errors in there. I meant no offense to Nvidia users, I just have fairly bad experience with that graphic card and console/desktop work on UNIX systems. By that, I mean, thin