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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Why didn't my apple need a screen saver?
- Message-ID: <9301030143.AA20714@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 01:43:54 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped Jawaid Bazyar's lips:
- >
- > Well, see, you're one of the special few who have come to realize that
- > 'screen saver' is a marketing term. The more appropriate term is
- > 'user bilcher' (No offense, Jim :-). These days, pretty much all screen
- > savers do is provide something for the computer to do and for the user
- > to look at when the computer isn't being used for anything else.
-
- Heh heh... and to think there are things like the "Origin" (animation
- from various Origin games) and "Star Trek" commercial screen savers going
- for too many $$$ in computer stores everywhere! I've seen more than a few
- people sit idly by their computers sipping coffee just to wait for the
- screen to blank. Gotta pity those Windows users. ;-)
-
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