On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:36:41 -0400, you wrote: >>Ohhh, you're running windows... I guess transmeta is the best you can >>do, then. There just aren't many other choices out there. But, I suppose >>running windows you're used to that huh? :-j >> >>Actually, there are a couple of other x86 chips, including:=20 >> >> Intel Celeron ULP(ultra low power) Celeron 500,650MHz >> http://www.intel.com/home/mobile/celeron/index.htm >>=09 >> Via Eden/EPIA 533,800MHz >> http://www.via.com.tw/en/Products/eden.jsp >> >> NS Geode GX1, GX2 >> http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/0,2062,396,00.html >> >>-Paul > >Hey, Paul -- > >Tell me where I can get the functionality of the following programs, all o= f which are essential to my professional (and personal) life, and I'll be o= ut of Windows like a shot:=20 > >XyWrite (ASCII-based, fast, powerful, no memory limits WP, with my HTML co= nversion/creation custom programs), PhotoShop, Xenu (on/off-line link check= er), HTML-Kit (for creating/editing/ftp-ing Web sites), ECCO (PIM, but real= ly an outliner, plus endlessly customizable database, which also launches f= iles and/or programs -- and everything can be output/input to/from ASCII fi= les). > >Of course, those are not the only programs I ever need (e.g., also use Pag= eMaker intensively, if irregularly, to typeset books and manuals; plus old = Frelance sometimes, which can make standalone DOS-based diskettes). As far = as I know, Linux software doesn't come close to meeting my needs. Yet. > >Oh, and please throw in APL while you're at it -- if I have to program bey= ond what XPL (XyWrite's extended programming language) can handle, I prefer= to use APL (or its newer cousine, J). Think you can handle all that? Thank= s! (I really don't like Windows, even the NT I have on this machine.) > >Cheers -- >Carol=20 >techwatcher > >P.S. Don't rush to answer -- I am about to go through another possibly mon= th-long "eclipse" of Internet access, so you've got up to a month to tell m= e how to upgrade. (-8 You did have Windows CPU based options. He listed them. Is Transmeta better than the ones he mentioned ? Other than that you're dependant on your OS and it's software, granted. Something about teaching and man's best friend springs to mind :^) but that's just my opinion. Form your own. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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