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- From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: I hate the Mac
- Message-ID: <Bzpu6y.Fzs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:13:45 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.235636.19915@vpnet.chi.il.us> <tubs0kc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
- Lines: 28
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- In article <tubs0kc@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec21.235636.19915@vpnet.chi.il.us>, orc@vpnet.chi.il.us writes:
- [nice flame of Mac's deleted]
- >
- >Your mistake here is in blaming the Mac instead of the idiots
- >you work with. Can you *imagine* these people trying to use a
- >Unix machine? They have trouble understanding the visual folder
- >hierarchy. Are they going to grasp Unix directories? They
- >can't use MSMail. Are they going to cope with /usr/bin/mail?
- >The Finder mystifies them. Are they going to be power csh
- >users?
- >
- >The Macintosh allows people who would otherwise never touch
- >a computer to use a computer to do actual work. It doesn't
- >change the people.
- >
- >You should conclude, therefore, that you hate people. Ordinary
- >people. People who aren't nerdy weenies like you & me.
- >
- But cj, I just had salesdroid slobber all over the table in a presentation
- about how the X-Windows manager on the HP-9000s could be customised to look
- and feel like a Mac!! I think at least one of the wm's for the SGI boxes
- can be so adulterated as well. Looks like the poster who claimed it was a
- plot of the aliens was right. I mean wasn't Apple trying to sue HP over
- New Wave? EEYuch! a MacInslosh GUI on every platform.
-
- Mike
-