From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-27 06:51:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:51:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1001598667 24.248.45.203 (Thu, 27 Sep 2001 06:51:07 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 06:51:07 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13432 Date: 2001-09-27T13:51:07+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." wrote in message news:mailman.1001574865.28724.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... [snip] > > In case any of you actually believe that Microsoft is invincible. I just > wasted about 3 hours trying to create a proposal in Word. It took about 30 > minutes in FrameMaker. I am sure that the other long suffering technical > users would desert Microsoft for products that actually worked. In 1983 the IBM PC was invincible. In 1985 Lotus 1-2-3 was invincible. The list goes on... SteveD