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   Message 471 of 1,512   
   Steve Hodgson to All   
   Re: Re: A farewell to BeOS   
   04 Jul 04 06:53:25   
   
   From: Hodge@Operamail.com   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:59:09 +0200, macsterdam    
   wrote:   
      
   >Beter still, try Panic's Unison. Fantastisc product.   
      
   Yes I tried that application because it looked so promising when it   
   came out. A cocoa newsreader with no pre-Os X heritage. Plus it looked   
   fantastic.   
      
   For me though it just didn't work as a newsreader because of a few   
   problems. Foreign character sets were handled poorly but most of all   
   there was no quick way to see all the new messages. You have to tunnel   
   into each group to find out, even if you keep everything flat and   
   don't use the virtual folders.   
      
   I ended up going for Hogwasher 4 when that came out.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Steve   
      
   >   
   >On 2004-06-25 15:25:10 +0200, Mike  said:   
   >   
   >> Thoth.  Or Hogwasher.   
   >>   
   >> In message , Steve   
   >> Hodgson wrote:   
   >> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:22:57 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger   
   >> >  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > > paul s  :   
   >> > >   
   >> > > > Steve Hodgson wrote:   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > > So that's it...   
   >> > > > >   
   >> > > > > My hard drive crashed and burned a couple of weeks ago and it   
   >> > > > > kinda   
   >> > > > > focussed my mind on whether I could live without BeOS. My   
   >> > > > > plan for a   
   >> > > > > while now has been to eventually downsize down to a single OS   
   >> > > > > at some   
   >> > > > > point - probably OS X.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > OS-X? Are you going to buy a Mac? You posted using Forte Agent   
   >> > > > which is   
   >> > as   
   >> > > > far is I know a Windows program.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > After if he is going to buy a whole new machine he could make it   
   >> > > an   
   >> > Intel/AMD   
   >> > > and try out both Linux and BeOS.  I am sure he will like OS-X but   
   >> > > the   
   >> > > hardware costs suck big time.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Earl Colby Pottinger   
   >> >   
   >> > Yeah I did get a Mac but can't find  a decent OS X newsreader. I'm   
   >> > currently running Pan under X11.   
   >> >   
   >> > Still using the (rebuily) Windows box and Agent from time to time   
   >> > though! Didn't bother putting BeOS back on - I miss it - it was a   
   >> > great OS! I playing around with Libranet which is a great Linux   
   >> > distro.   
   >> >   
   >> > Cheers,   
   >> >   
   >> > Steve   
      
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   My Usenet email address is a spam trap   
   To email - use steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk   
      
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