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- From: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us (Eric S Johansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: PHILOSOPHY & CM
- Message-ID: <H.eg.FRqUBgRrYYo@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:25:44 GMT
- References: <4271.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
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- In <4271.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, ForthNet articles from GEnie writes:
- >Category 1, Topic 12
- >Message 12 Sat Jan 23, 1993
- >L.ZETTEL [Len] at 19:44 EST
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- > From SIGFORTh Neswletter Vol1 #2, p9:
- >
- > The harsh fact is that few people know what to do with a computer. They
- > decide that running an operating system is a substitute for productive work.
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- from what I can tell, folks run news as a substitute for productive work.
- an os exists only to support news.
-
- --- eric
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- p.s. :-)
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