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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:16:55 +0930

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

Richard Russell wrote:
> 
> > > > Ciriix migth be more affordable at least ahrdware wise, I am
> > not sure what
> > > > the lsincesing cost for that would be.
> > >
> > > Citrix, while with its uses is old and clunky. Citrix in a school must
> > > be like death by torture :-)
> > >
> > > Citrx is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Not cheap enough
> > > for a school, anyway.
> >
> > I think he was talking about Cyrix :-)
> 
> I don't think so -- www.citrix.com
> 
> Citrix is like X for windows, but better in some ways, worse in others. The
> original text was saying that with Citrix, you can get away with cheap
> client hardware, but the licencing is expensive... We use it at work, and we
> have fairly high-end PC hardware all over, and it's fast in some ways
> (opening programs is usually almost instant, as the server has already got
> the executable in memory) and slow in others (any screen updates are
> slowish...)

Fair enough.

> rr

Here's what a google search for: pine mail client linux "spell check"
FAQ   turned up. :-)

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/Mail/pine-faq/faq.html+pine+mail+client+linux+%22spell+check%22+FAQ&hl=en

Matt

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